#3799. Embedded implicature: what can be left unsaid?

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Abstract:
Previous research on scalar implicature has primarily relied on meta-linguistic judgment tasks and found varying rates of such inferences depending on the nature of the task and contextual manipulations. The main research question is what is reliably communicated by some in this communicative setting, both when the quantifier occurs in unembedded and embedded positions. It incorporates a game-theoretic design, thereby including a precise model to predict participants’ behaviour in the experimental context. We propose two cognitive principles that describe what can be left unsaid. In our experimental context, a production strategy based on these principles is more efficient than a strategy based on literal descriptions.
Keywords:
Embedded implicature; Experimental pragmatics; Game theoretic pragmatics; Scalar implicature

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