implicatures

Grice called implicatures of the kind exemplified conventional, since it is a standing feature of the word

Him 2009

This either suggests that for some reason people weren't computing implicatures in their study or that the other quantifiers were really slow or that Polish, the language they used, is just different.

Archive 2010-06-01 GamesWithWords 2010

These words have certain tendencies, connotations, and implicatures that can make one more or less fitting for a given situation.

In which I earn a bottle of champagne « Motivated Grammar 2008

These words have certain tendencies, connotations, and implicatures that can make one more or less fitting for a given situation.

2008 June « Motivated Grammar 2008

This either suggests that for some reason people weren't computing implicatures in their study or that the other quantifiers were really slow or that Polish, the language they used, is just different.

Cognitive Science, April 2010 GamesWithWords 2010

An important debate in the field has centered around whether scalar implicatures depend on context.

Archive 2009-04-01 josh 2009

Actually, that's not what my data shows - the difference we found was between "summa the cookies" and "some cookies", where the former gives rise to more implicatures.

Summa smack-down josh 2009

A couple years ago, Richard Breheny & colleagues published a nice reading-time experiment in which was consistent with scalar implicatures being computed in some contexts but not others.

Archive 2009-04-01 josh 2009

A couple years ago, Richard Breheny & colleagues published a nice reading-time experiment in which was consistent with scalar implicatures being computed in some contexts but not others.

Speaker uncertainty josh 2009

An important debate in the field has centered around whether scalar implicatures depend on context.

Speaker uncertainty josh 2009