2013
DOI: 10.3765/sp.6.9
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Embedded scalars

Abstract: For over a decade, the interpretation of scalar expressions under embedding has been a much debated issue, with proposed accounts ranging from strictly pragmatic, on one end of the spectrum, to lexico-syntactic, on the other. There has been some confusion as to what exactly the controversy is about, and we argue that what is at stake is the division of labour between pragmatic and truth-conditional mechanisms. All parties to the debate agree that upper-bounded construals of scalar expressions are variously cau… Show more

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“…Geurts & van Tiel (2013) review three experimental papers on this topic: Geurts & Pouscoulous 2009, which argued that embedded UBCs are very infrequently in evidence, and Clifton &Dube 2010 andChemla &Spector 2011, which argued that embedded UBCs are relatively widespread in a way that suggests the inadequacy of a Gricean pragmatic account. 1 Geurts & van Tiel criticise these latter two papers on two distinct grounds.…”
Section: Chris Cumminsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Geurts & van Tiel (2013) review three experimental papers on this topic: Geurts & Pouscoulous 2009, which argued that embedded UBCs are very infrequently in evidence, and Clifton &Dube 2010 andChemla &Spector 2011, which argued that embedded UBCs are relatively widespread in a way that suggests the inadequacy of a Gricean pragmatic account. 1 Geurts & van Tiel criticise these latter two papers on two distinct grounds.…”
Section: Chris Cumminsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All three papers discussed by Geurts & van Tiel (2013) report experiments using broadly similar materials: these were ostensibly meaningless geometrical diagrams consisting of connected squares, circles, and letters. Participants were then asked to rate sentences such as (1), repeated below, as descriptions of these diagrams.…”
Section: Typicality Versus (Embedded) Ubcsmentioning
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