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Cho, Jacee – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
This study examines effects of memory load on the processing of scalar implicature via a dual-task paradigm using reading span and self-paced reading. Results indicate that participants showed online sensitivity to underinformative sentences (e.g., "Some birds have wings and beaks") at the end of the sentence. This online sensitivity…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Ability, Task Analysis, Language Processing
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Starr, Glenn; Cho, Jacee – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
This study aims to investigate adult L2 speakers' use of different types of information in the comprehension of pragmatic inferences by examining L1-Mandarin Chinese L2-English speakers' sensitivity to cues "all" and "any" in scalar implicature (SI) computation for "some." This article and our experimental setup does…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Inferences