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What second-language speakers can tell us about pragmatic processing

Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow, a listener might pragmatically infer that ‘Some but not all cats meow’. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a speaker produces a weak linguistic expression instead of a stronger one. Several L2 studies claim that pragmatic inferences...

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Autores principales: Khorsheed, Ahmed, Md. Rashid, Sabariah, Nimehchisalem, Vahid, Geok Imm, Lee, Price, Jessica, Ronderos, Camilo R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8856516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35180247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263724