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What we Know about Knowing: Presuppositions generated by factive verbs influence downstream neural processing
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On children's variable success with scalar inferences : insights from disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier
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The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature : evidence from Greek
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Developmental insights into gappy phenomena : comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness
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Testing theories of temporal inferences : evidence from child language
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More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in nonmonotonic environments
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 28; 690-710 ; 2163-5951 (2018)
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Disjunctions in the scope of possibility modals give rise to a conjunctive inference, generally labeled 'free choice'. A prominent approach derives free choice as a kind of scalar implicature. In this paper, we focus on the predictions of two main type of accounts within this approach, with the goal of investigating what implicature-generating algorithm best captures free choice and related data. The first is based on a standard algorithm for computing implicatures, which proceeds by negating (or 'excluding') alternatives to a sentence and adding the information so obtained to the assertion. The second proceeds by directly conjoining alternatives to the assertion (or 'including' them). This paper provides evidence that discriminates between the exclusion and the inclusion accounts. We focus on sentences involving possibility modals and disjunctions in the scope of nonmonotonic quantifiers: our key example is "Exactly one girl cannot take Spanish or Calculus". We report on an inferential task experiment testing this case. We find clear evidence that the sentence has a free-choice-type reading, on which it suggests that one girl cannot take either Spanish or Calculus and all of the others can choose between the two. This is challenging for exclusion accounts, but in line with the predictions of inclusion accounts. This case constitutes, therefore, an argument for inclusion accounts.
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URL: http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/28.690 https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v28i0.4430
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Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral : experimental data
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On the role of alternatives in the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese
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Testing the QUD approach : children's comprehension of scopally ambiguous questions
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Asymmetry in presupposition projection: The case of conjunction
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 27; 504-524 ; 2163-5951 (2017)
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Children's knowledge of free choice inferences and scalar implicatures
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Born in the USA : a comparison of modals and nominal quantifiers in child language
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Scalar implicatures versus presuppositions : the view from acquisition
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