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Priming Reveals Similarities and Differences between Three Purported Cases of Implicature: Some, Number and Free Choice Disjunctions

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Author	Meyer, Marie-Christine Feiman, Roman
Description	Across a wide variety of semantically ambiguous sentences, implicature has been pro-posed as a single mechanism which can derive one reading from another in a systematicway. While a single formal mechanism for computing implicatures across disparate caseshas an appealing parsimony, differences in behavioral and processing signatures betweencases have created a debate about whether the same computation really is so widelyshared. Building on previous work by Bott & Chemla (2016), three experiments usestructural priming to test for shared computations across three purported cases of impli-cature: the quantifiersome, number words, and Free Choice disjunctions. While we findevidence of a shared computation between the enriched readings ofsomeand numberwords, we find no evidence that Free Choice readings involve any shared computationwith eithersomeor number. Along with evidence of a shared mechanism betweensomeand number implicatures, we also find substantial differences between these two cases.We propose a way to reconcile these findings, as well as seemingly contradictory priorevidence, by understanding implicature as a sequence of separable sub-computations.This implies a spectrum of possibilities for which sub-computations might be shared ordistinct between cases, instead of a single implicature mechanism that can only be eitherpresent or absent.
DOI	10.31234/osf.io/6b4v3
Language	English
Publisher Date	2020-07-12
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	CC-By Attribution 4.0 International
Subject Keyword	Social and Behavioral Sciences;Linguistics;Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics;Semantics and Pragmatics;Cognitive Psychology;Language Bare Numerals Free Choice Implicature Pragmatics Priming Psycholinguistics Semantics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Preprint
Subject	Social Sciences Linguistics and Language Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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