Social Context Modulates Tolerance for Pragmatic Violations in Binary but Not Graded Judgments

A common method for investigating pragmatic processing and its development in children is to have participants make binary judgments of underinformative (UI) statements such as Some elephants are mammals. Rejection of such statements indicates that a (not-all) scalar implicature has been computed. A...

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Main Authors: Les Sikos, Minjae Kim, Daniel J. Grodner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00510/full