Research in Experimental Pragmatics has shown that deriving scalar implicatures involves
effort and processing costs. This finding was robust and replicated across a wide variety of …

For more than 20 years, studies in experimental pragmatics have provided invaluable
insights into the cognitive processes involved in deriving scalar implicatures and achieving …

Many studies report that the computation of scalar inferences, such as the inference from
'some'to 'not all', is cognitively costly. However, a number of studies on scalar inferences in …

An underinformative sentence, such as Some cats are mammals, is trivially true with a
semantic (some and perhaps all) reading of the quantifier and false with a pragmatic (some …

This study tests whether the underlying semantic properties of gradable adjectives influence
second language (L2) learners' pragmatic inferencing behavior, and further examines the …

While scalar inferences associated with some have featured in most of the past
investigations into L2 implicature derivation, this study examines acquisition of pragmatic …

Previous L2 studies used binary Truth-Value-Judgment (TVJ) tasks to investigate L1–L2
differences in scalar implicature derivation (some X implicates some but not all X). They …

Children's difficulties with Scalar Implicature (SI) generation have been argued to stem from
their tolerance towards pragmatic violations rather than from issues with the inferential …

This article investigates the variability in the meaning of vague quantifiers across different
languages, focusing on Italian'sm (any)-words molto and tanto. The aim was to replicate a …

Understanding a written text involves not only making sense of its overtly expressed literal
content, but also retrieving its subtly conveyed implied meanings by resorting to contextual …