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ERIC Number: EJ1429170
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1547-5441
EISSN: EISSN-1547-3341
Ad-Hoc Conversational Implicatures in Two-Year-Olds
Laura Franchin; Anna Teresa Porrini; Luca Surian
Language Learning and Development, v20 n3 p219-231 2024
Young children's (n = 108) and adults' (n = 40) ability to compute ad-hoc quantity conversational implicatures was assessed using a new implicit task that relied on eye-tracking. The children were 2 and 5 years old. Looking times reveal that all participants interpreted simple references by relying on implicatures. However, 2-year-olds failed to derive standard ad-hoc implicatures and succeeded only on a novel type of implicature based on typicality, which was proposed with the aim of reducing the salience of non-target potential referents. These results suggest that even toddlers are able to derive conversational implicatures and that domain-general inhibitory demands, rather than domain-specific limitations in pragmatic reasoning, may play a crucial role in children's difficulties with implicatures.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
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