Recent investigations of the acquisition of scalar implicature report that young children do
not reliably reject a sentence with a weak scalar term, eg 'some of the books are red', when it …

This article provides an estimation of how frequently, and from whom, children aged 0–11
years (Ns between 9 and 24) receive one‐on‐one verbal input among Tsimane forager …

Models of language production must account for how speakers select referential
expressions, a process that is complicated by the range of options available to speakers (eg …

This chapter reviews the literature on preschool children's sensitivity to cognitive
accessibility in selecting linguistic forms to realize referents in speech. Both spontaneous …

How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

The growing prevalence of artificial intelligence and digital media in children's lives provides
them with the opportunity to interact with novel non-human agents such as robots and voice …

Color adjectives tend to be used redundantly in referential communication. I propose that
redundant color adjectives (RCAs) are often intended to exploit a color contrast in the visual …

Effective communication requires knowing the “right” amount of information to provide; what
is necessary for a naïve learner to arrive at a target hypothesis may be superfluous and …

The theme of this Special Issue is asymmetries in language acquisition, and the
contributions present evidence for either the presence or absence of a production …

A pragmatic account of referential communication is developed which presents an
alternative to traditional Gricean accounts by focusing on cooperativeness and efficiency …