Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and Chemla

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Published: Jan 25, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.3.2
Keywords:
conversational implicature embedded implicature experimental pragmatics free-choice permission truth dominance

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Uli Sauerland
University of Wuppertal and Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)

Abstract

Experimental evidence on embedded implicatures by Chemla (2009b) and Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009a) has fewer theoretical consequences than assumed: On the one hand, the evidence successfully argues against obligatory local implicature computation, which has however already been discredited. On the other hand, the data are fully consistent with optional local implicature computation.

doi:10.3765/sp.3.2

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Vol. 3 (2010)
Section
Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

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Uli Sauerland, University of Wuppertal and Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)

Visiting Professor and Research Group Leader