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Around "Around"
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In: Measurement, Numerals and Scales: Essays in honor of Stephanie Solt ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03511936 ; Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland. Measurement, Numerals and Scales: Essays in honor of Stephanie Solt, Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, In press (2022)
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How to be Brief: Children’s and Adults’ Application of Grice’s Brevity Maxim in Production
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In: Languages ; Volume 4 ; Issue 1 (2019)
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The brevity maxim of Gricean pragmatics states that unnecessary prolixity should be avoided. We report a case in which 5-year-old children&rsquo ; s performance conforms better to Grice&rsquo ; s maxim than adults&rsquo ; behavior. Our data come from a semi-spontaneous German relative clause production study that we carried out with 5- and 7-year-old children as well as adults. In particular, we focus on the pragmatics of the passive predicates that were produced. These constituted about a third of both child and adult productions in items that targeted an object relative clause structure. Since the expression of the agent is syntactically optional with passive predicates, the brevity maxim predicts that the agent should only be expressed when it is informative. We compare two conditions to test this prediction: one where the agent is informative and one where it is not. We find that 5-year-old children display significantly greater sensitivity to the brevity maxim than adults do. In two follow-up studies, we show that adults&rsquo ; violations of brevity cannot be explained by priming of by-phrases expressing the agent and that there is an effect of age within children as well.
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brevity; Grice; informativity; language acquisition; manner implicatures; passive; pragmatics; production; relative clauses
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4010018
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Decomposing coordination [Online resource]
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In: NELS 44 : proceedings of the forty-fourth annual meeting of the north east linguistics society ; Bd. 1 44 (2014), 39-52
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Surface non-conservativity in german [Online resource]
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In: Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10, ed. Christopher Piñón 8 (2014), 125-142
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (and ordinary ones require ordinary evidence) : on experimental linguistics for less well studied languages [Online resource]
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In: Revista da Abralin 13 (2014) 2, 121-149
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Counterparts block some 'de' 're' readings [Online resource]
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In: The art and craft of semantics : a festschrift for Irene Heim, Bd. 2, MIT working papers in linguistics ; 71 (2014), 65-85
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Presuppositions and the alternative tier [Online resource]
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory : SALT ; Proceedings of the ... Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, 23.2013 23 (2013), 156-173
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Vagueness in language : the case against fuzzy logic [Online resource]
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In: Understanding vagueness : logical, philosophical, and linguistic perspectives, Studies in Logic, 36 (2011), 185-198
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Biolinguistic Perspectives on Recursion: Introduction to the Special Issue
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In: Biolinguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1-2, Pp 001-009 (2011) (2011)
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Embedded implicatures and experimental constraints : a reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and Chemla [Online resource]
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In: Semantics and Pragmatics 3 (2010) 2, 1-13
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Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and Chemla
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In: Semantics and Pragmatics, Vol 3, Iss 0, Pp 1-13 (2010) (2010)
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On the semantic markedness of φ-features
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In: http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2009/12807/pdf/SAUERLAND_On_the_Semantic_Markedness_of_FFeatures.pdf (2008)
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Move and accommodate : a solution to Haddock's puzzle [Online resource]
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In: Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 7, O. Bonami & P. Cabredo Hofherr (eds.) 7 (2008), 1-25
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Pseudo-sloppy readings in flat binding [Online resource]
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In: Empirical issues in formal syntax and semantics 7 : papers from CSSP 2007, O. Bonami & P. Cabredo Hofherr (Hrsg.) (2008) 7, 331-349
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