At the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface in Child Language

By Andrea Gualmini, Stephen Crain, Luisa Meroni, Gennaro Chierchia, Maria Teresa Guasti. 2001

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occurs in positive contexts, an implicature of exclusivity arises. By contrast when the disjunction operator occurs within the scope of a downward entailing linguistic expression, no implicature of exclusivity is computed. Investigations on children’s computation of scalar implicatures in the same contexts have led to a slightly different picture. In particular it has proven difficult to demonstrate that children compute scalar implicatures (in

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature (2009, unknown): “This study is based on several earlier studies (Gualmini et al. 2001, Noveck 2001, Papafragou and Musolino 2003) that explore the development of conversational implicatures in children. Papafragou and Musolino (2003), for example, describe a study where children and adults were shown images of horse”
Dependent plurals and plural meaning (2008, methodology): “This study is based on a backdrop of several studies (Gualmini et al. 2001, Noveck 2001, Papafragou and Musolino 2003) that explore the development of conversational implicatures in children. Papafragou and Musolino (2003), for example, describe a study where children and adults were shown images of”
Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface. (2003, result): “Commenting on the results presented by Chierchia et al., Gualmini et al. (2001) conclude that “The explanation offered by Chierchia et al. for this set of findings is that children have knowledge of the relative information strength of sentences with or versus ones with and, and they also use info”
Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development (2016, unknown): “This assumption needs to be worked out, but we would like to argue that it is not necessary to account for the data, and most likely will turn out to be problematic given the observation that the child’s deviant behaviour with or disappears in downward-entailing (DE) contexts; in such contexts, ther”