Development of Quantitative and Temporal Scalar Implicatures in a Felicity Judgment Task.

ABSTRACT: Experimental investigations into children's interpretation of scalar terms show that children have difficulties with scalar implicatures in tasks. In contrast with adults, they are for instance not able to derive the pragmatic interpretation that "some" means "not all" (Noveck, 2001; Papafragou and Musolino, 2003). However, there is also substantial experimental evidence that children are not incapable of drawing scalar inferences and that they are aware of the pragmatic potential of scalar expressions. In these kinds of studies, the prime interest is to discover what conditions facilitate implicature production for children. One of the factors that seem to be difficult for children is the generation of the scalar alternative. In a Felicity Judgment Task (FJT) the alternative is given. Par

SUBMITTER: Schaeken W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6387925 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature