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    "pk": 25537,
    "title": "Sources of developmental change in pragmatic inferences about scalar terms",
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    "abstract": "Pragmatic implicatures—inferences that weak statements imply\nthat stronger ones could not be used—are a popular case\nstudy of children’s pragmatic development. A growing literature\nsuggests that children make implicatures under certain\nconditions, but their performance varies widely across tasks,\nand few datasets allow direct comparisons between implicature\ntypes. We designed a simple paradigm to address these issues.\nIn Experiment 1, we included both ad-hoc (contextual) and\nscalar (quantifier) descriptions and found that 4-year-olds were\nat ceiling in ad-hoc trials but had difficulty with scalar implicatures.\nIn Experiment 2, 4-year-olds’ performance increased\nwhen we included only scalar trials, but was still low. Across\nboth datasets, performance for “some” and “none” quantifiers\nwas positively correlated. Our work provides more precise\ndevelopmental data on the emergence of different implicature\ncomputations and illustrates that preschoolers’ recognition of\nimplicatures relates both to their comprehension of particular\nlexical items and also their recognition of relevant alternatives",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Pragmatics; implicature; language development"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Alexandra",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Horowitz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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