Some utterances are underinformative: The onset and time course of scalar inferences

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 437-457

  Bott, Lewis ^a   Noveck, Ira A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 4444313484     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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