Scalar Implication as a linguistic universal: experimental data from Brazilian Portuguese

In this work we investigate the acquisition of scalar implicature in Brazilian Portuguese searching for the components that underlie mastery of such kind of inference. The subjects of our experiment were 5 and 7 year olds acquiring Brazilian Portuguese. Analogue sentences containing weak scalar term...

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Published in:Revista Linguística
Main Author: Renato Caruso Vieira
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2018-09-01
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/17044