Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and Chemla

Experimental evidence on embedded implicatures by Chemla (2009b) and Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009a) has fewer theoretical consequences than assumed: On the one hand, the evidence successfully argues against obligatory local implicature computation, which has however already been discredited. On th...

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Main Author: Uli Sauerland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2010-01-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/136