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Publication details [#52418]
Ward, Gregory, Ryan Doran, Rachel E. Baker, Yaron McNabb and Meredith Larson. 2009. On the Non-Unified Nature of Scalar Implicature: An Empirical Investigation. International Review of Pragmatics 1 (2) : 211–248. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Brill
Annotation
Drawing on the “Literal Lucy” methodology (cr. Larson et al. (in press)), this study demonstrates that the interpretation of scalar implicature depends both on the associated scale type and on the discourse context.