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Direct linkBarner, David; Brooks, Neon; Bale, Alan – Cognition, 2011
When faced with a sentence like, "Some of the toys are on the table", adults, but not preschoolers, compute a scalar implicature, taking the sentence to imply that not all the toys are on the table. This paper explores the hypothesis that children fail to compute scalar implicatures because they lack knowledge of relevant scalar alternatives to…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Sentences, Role, Inferences
