Generating and Selecting Alternatives for Scalar Implicature Computation : The Alternative Activation Account and Other Theories
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<a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-76676-3_2" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-76676-3_2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76676-3_2" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-76676-3_2</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Generating and Selecting Alternatives for Scalar Implicature Computation : The Alternative Activation Account and Other Theories
Original language description
This paper discusses the connection between the generation and selection of alternatives in the domain of focus and scalar implicature. We argue that the mechanism for constructing alternatives needs to be separated from the inferential process itself. Taking inspiration from the work on the activation of focus alternatives (e.g., Gotzner, 2017), we propose an analogous Alternative Activation Account for scalar implicature. We review experimental evidence suggesting that initially a broad cohort of elements is activated for focus and scalar alternatives. Crucially, non-entailed alternatives are included in this initial as a result of how our brain organizes information in semantic networks. Later during incremental sentence comprehension, the initial set is narrowed down to those alternatives that are relevant for inference computation. We discuss whether the same kinds of alternatives feature in the case of focus and different scalar expressions such as quantifiers and gradable adjectives. Finally, we point out key test cases for future research to tackle the nature of alternatives and the mechanisms underlying scalar implicature computation.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition
ISBN
9783031766756
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
13-38
Number of pages of the book
309
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham (Switzerland)
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