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    "pk": 25841,
    "title": "Children’s Online Processing of Ad-Hoc Implicatures",
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    "abstract": "Language comprehenders routinely make pragmatic inferences\nthat go beyond the literal meanings of utterances. If A said “I\nate some of the cookies,” B should infer that A ate some but\nnot all. Children perform poorly on experimental tests of scalar\nimplicatures like this, despite their early-emerging sensitivity\nto pragmatic cues. Our current work explores potential factors\nresponsible for children’s successes and failures in computing\npragmatic inferences. In two experiments, we used an eyetracking\nparadigm to test children’s ability to compute implicatures\nwhen they have access to contextual alternatives to the\ntarget word (Experiment 1), and when they hear prosodic cues\nthat emphasize the contrast between the target and alternative\n(Experiment 2). We found that by the time children are four\nyears old, they successfully identify the inferential target referent\nin this paradigm; with supportive prosodic cues, we saw\nevidence of success in three-year-olds as well. In sum, with\nsufficient contextual support, preschool children are capable\nof making online pragmatic inferences.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Pragmatics; implicature; eye-tracking; cognitive\ndevelopment"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tt474w6",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Erica",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Yoon",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Yunan",
            "middle_name": "Charles",
            "last_name": "Wu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Wabash College",
            "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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