Experimental investigations into how children and adults process the implicature associated with the scalar term 'some'

A scalar implicature is the use of a weak term from a scale to implicate that a stronger term in the scale is not the intended meaning. For example, some is often interpreted as meaning some but not all, whereas logically its meaning is at least one. It is only in recent years that scalar implicatur...

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Main Author: Scrafton, Susan
Published: Durham University 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508724