Are generalised scalar implicatures generated by default? An on-line investigation into the role of context in generating pragmatic inferences

Cognition

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 434-463

  Breheny, Richard ^a   Katsos, Napoleon ^b   Williams, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversational implicature; Defaultness in linguistic processing; Language processing; Pragmatics; Scalar implicature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745121810     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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