Processing Presuppositions and Implicatures: Similarities and Differences

Presuppositions and scalar implicatures are traditionally considered to be distinct phenomena, but recent accounts analyze (at least some of) the former as the latter. All else being equal, this “scalar implicature approach to presuppositions” predicts uniform behavior for the two types of inference...

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Main Authors: Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00044/full