Implicatures, Entailments, and Presuppositions
How do we puzzle out what meanings lie beyond our sentences? What different flavours of extra meanings are there? In this week's episode, we talk about implicatures, entailments, and presuppositions: how to define them, what the differences are between them, and how they enrich our understanding of the world.
This is Topic #34!
This week's tag language: Hindi!
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The 2003 study cited is:
Papafragou, A. & J. Musolino, (2003). Scalar implicatures: experiments at the syntax-semantics interface. Cognition 86, 253-282.
It mostly is focused on how kids deal with these sentences, but we used the control group for our purposes.
Looking forward to next week!