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Abstract
The majority of the extensive experimental and theoretical literature on scalar strengthening assumes that the phenomenon is uniform across all types of scalars. The experiment reported here contributes to the growing evidence against scalar uniformity, while also exploring the suggestion of van Tiel at al. 2014 of the role of boundedness in the observed variation. The current experiment utilizes a novel approach to exploring the interpretation of scalars, and also investigates the content of strengthened interpretations.Keywords: experimental pragmatics; language comprehension; scalar implicatures; sentence processing
Year: 2017 PMID: 28374637 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1314516
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) ISSN: 1747-0218 Impact factor: 2.143