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  • What second-language speakers can tell us about pragmatic processing 
    Khorsheed, Ahmed; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Nimehchisalem, Vahid; Imm, Lee Geok; Price, Jessica; Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow , a listener might pragmatically infer that ‘Some but not all cats meow’. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a speaker produces a weak linguistic expression ...