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Implicature Acquisition

Implicature Acquisition is a theoretical construct within pragmatic development that refers to the process by which learners infer implicit speaker meaning through contextual and linguistic cues, distinguishing it from explicit semantic comprehension and syntactic knowledge.

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2017–2026

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When children are more logical than adults: experimental investigations of scalar implicature

Ira Noveck · Cognition · 2001 · 886 citations

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Pragmatic tolerance: Implications for the acquisition of informativeness and implicature

Napoleon Katsos, Dorothy Bishop · Cognition · 2011 · 472 citations · Full text

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A Developmental Investigation of Processing Costs in Implicature Production

Nausicaa Pouscoulous, Ira Noveck, Guy Politzer et al. · Language Acquisition · 2007 · 392 citations

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The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence for a grammatical view of scalar implicatures

Gennaro Chierchia, Stephen Crain, Maria Teresa Guasti et al. · 2001 · 296 citations

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Ad-hoc Implicature in Preschool Children

Alex J. Stiller, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank · Language Learning and Development · 2014 · 280 citations

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Authors

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  1. MC
    Michael C. Frank

    Stanford University, United States

    5 publications · 423 citations

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  2. LF
    Lawrence F. Bouton

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    4 publications · 613 citations

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  3. JR
    Jacopo Romoli

    University of Ulster, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 153 citations

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  4. IN
    Ira Noveck

    Laboratoire sur le Langage, le Cerveau et la Cognition, France

    3 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. NP
    Nausicaa Pouscoulous

    University College London, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 455 citations

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Institutions

73

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    7 h-index

    14 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    662 citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    355 citations

  4. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    153 citations

  5. University of Ulster

    Coleraine, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    173 citations

  6. National Chin-Yi University of Technology

    Taichung, Taiwan

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    49 citations

  7. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    345 citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    1.6K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    4 publications · 436 citations

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  2. Frontiers in Psychology

    4 publications · 104 citations

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  3. Language Learning and Development

    3 publications · 556 citations

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  4. Journal of Child Language

    3 publications · 124 citations

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  5. Child Development

    2 publications · 128 citations

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