Some utterances are underinformative: The onset and time course of scalar inferences

By Lewis Bott, Ira A. Noveck. 2004

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Philosophy

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Scalar implicatures in second language acquisition (2010, unknown): “One such study is Bott and Noveck (2004), particularly their Experiments 1 and 2.”
Distinguishing speed from accuracy in scalar implicatures (2012, methodology): “In this study we investigated this cost using a sentence verification task similar to that of Bott and Noveck (2004) combined with a response deadline procedure to estimate speed and accuracy independently.”
Do all ducks lay eggs? The generic overgeneralization effect (2011, background): “Just as in Experiment 1, quasi-definitional existentials exhibited a scalar implicature effect (76%), i.e., a relatively low agreement level because of the implication that ''some'' is taken to mean ''not all'' (Bott & Noveck, 2004).”
A Developmental Investigation of Processing Costs in Implicature Production (2007, background): “…from carrying out implicatures (e.g., through the inclusion of distractors) while also showing how implicature production among even young children (4- to 5-year-olds) can be facilitated by task features (e.g., the use of an action task) and without the introduction of special training.”
Presuppositions of quantified sentences: experimental data (2009, background): “14 A relevent finding was made recently in the realm of scalar implicatures (e.g., Noveck and Posada 2003; Bott and Noveck 2004; Breheny et al. 2005): deriving a scalar implicature requires an extra processing effort.”
Two methods to find truth-value gaps and their application to the projection problem of homogeneity (2015, result): “But in similar tasks, scalar implicatures show slow response times (see Bott and Noveck 2004 and others), while maximal readings show fast response times (Schwarz 2013a). However, other processing studies on phenomena that are allegedly related to scalar implicatures have also found the reverse proc”
An Experimental Comparison Between Presuppositions and Indirect Scalar Implicatures (2015, background): “Among the three inferences that we are looking at in this paper, direct scalar implicatures are the ones that have been studied most extensively in the psycholinguistic literature (Bott and Noveck, 2004; Bott et al., 2012; Breheny et al., 2006; Huang and Snedeker, 2009; Chemla and Bott, 2013).”
Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: insight into the semantics-pragmatics interface. (2009, background): “For example, Bott and Noveck (2004) examined the response times for truth-value judgments of sentences containing weak scalar quantifiers like ‘‘Some elephants are mammals.””
Investigating scalar implicatures in a truth-value judgement task: evidence from event-related brain potentials (2016, background): “The proponents of the other approach (Bott & Noveck, 2004; Breheny, Katsos, & Williams, 2006) postulate that scalar implicatures result from complex and global reasoning processes that are based on context or assumptions regarding the speaker’s intentions (Carston, 1998; Sperber and Wilson, 1986).”