Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories

Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009) present experimental evidence that embedded implicatures are not systematically available and conclude that localist theories of implicatures cannot be maintained. I argue that this conclusion can be strengthened by showing that their findings cannot be reconciled wit...

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Main Author: Michela Ippolito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2010-03-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/665