The Trouble With Quantifiers: Exploring Children's Deficits in Scalar Implicature
Adults routinely use the context of utterances to infer a meaning beyond the literal semantics of their words (e.g., inferring from “She ate some of the cookies” that she ate some, but not all). Contrasting children's (N = 209) comprehension of scalar implicatures using quantifiers with context...
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Language: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Inc.
2018
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