Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Over the last decade, various proposals have been made for supplanting the classical Gricean theory of scalar implicature with conventionalist (i.e. lexicalist or syntax-based) treatments. In contradistinction to the classical view, conventionalist theories predict that scalar inferences occur systematically and freely in embedded positions. We present experimental evidence that disproves this prediction, arguing along the way that there are rather good reasons to suspect that introspection isn't always a reliable tool for gathering data on pragmatic inferences. doi:10.3765/sp.2.4 BibTeX info Background Materials
Source: Semantics and Pragmatics
DOI: 10.3765/sp.2.4
Authors: Bart Geurts, Nausicaa Pouscoulous
Institutions: Radboud University Nijmegen, University College London
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4241123065