Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface.

By Anna Papafragou, Julien Musolino. Cognition, 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development (2016, positive): “…as Chemla 2009a and Franke 2011), predicts the possibility of a conjunctive strengthening.9 8This assumption builds on Chierchia et al. (2001), Gualmini et al. (2001), Papafragou and Musolino (2003), Reinhart (2006), Crain (2008), and especially Barner and Bachrach (2010) and Barner et al. (2011).”
Scalar implicatures in second language acquisition (2010, neutral): “Furthermore, if training and context helps children be more pragmatically felicitous (e.g., Papafragou and Musolino, 2003; Guasti et al., 2005), then the Relevance Theory account seems to be supported?”
Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Numbers and Quantifiers (2006, background): “In the course of acquisition, children and adults may be differentially sensitive to the logical meaning and the pragmatics of utterances (Hurewitz et al., 2000; Noveck, 2001; Papafragou & Musolino, 2003).”
Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature (2009, positive): “Papafragou and Musolino (2003), for example, describe a study where children and adults were shown images of horses jumping over a log.”
Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: insight into the semantics-pragmatics interface. (2009, background): “Similarly, Papafragou and Musolino (2003) found that five-yearolds, but not adults, were content to accept weak scalar predicates like started in situations where the stronger term finished applied.”
Why children aren't universally successful with quantification (2006, background): “In the absence of such contextual support, children are found to rely heavily on a strong factor pulling in the opposite direction, namely the surface syntactic structure of the sentence, leading to over-isomorphic interpretations (Lidz and Musolino 2002).”
Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference. (2016, neutral): “In one striking example, five-year-olds endorsed the statement that “some of the horses jumped over the fence” even when three out of three of a set of horses had made the jump [62].”
Ad-hoc Implicature in Preschool Children (2015, methodology): “In this version, we included one fewer trial, added a common grounding phase in which objects were named (Barner et al., 2011; Papafragou & Musolino, 2003), and used only vocabulary items that were very likely to be known to young children.”
A Developmental Investigation of Processing Costs in Implicature Production (2007, methodology): “For example (and as we will discuss in detail later), Papafragou and colleagues (Papafragou and Musolino (2003), Papafragou and Tantalou (2004)) showed that children as young as 5 are generally able to produce implicatures when they are given appropriate training and when the experimental…”
New Perspectives on Language and Thought (2012, background): “In one experiment, Papafragou and Musolino (2003) had 5-year-old children watch as three horses are shown jumping over a fence.”
Negation: A theory of its meaning, representation, and use (2012, background): “Evidence suggests, however, that preschool children tend to think more like logicians and are less likely to infer ‘‘scalar implicatures’’ of the sort illustrated in (23b) (see Noveck, 2001; Papafragou & Musolino, 2003).”
V-Raising and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from Negation and Quantifier Scope (2007, methodology): “The method has been shown to work in several languages (e.g., Lidz and Musolino 2002, Papafragou and Musolino 2003) and to work both with adults and with children as young as 4 (Crain and McKee 1986, Crain and Thornton 1998, Lidz and Musolino 2002).”
'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL (2013, methodology): “There are many examples in the literature testing scalar implicature calculation in languages other than English (Noveck 2001, Papafragou & Musolino 2003, Slabakova 2010, among others) and all find similar behavioral results in their participants with prototypical scales like 〈and,or〉.”