Experimental evidence for embedded scalar implicatures

Journal of Semantics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-400

  Chemla, Emmanuel ^a   Spector, Benjamin ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

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EID: 79961235630     PISSN: 01675133     EISSN: 14774593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffq023     Document Type: Article

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