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Bott, Lewis; Bailey, Todd M.; Grodner, Daniel – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Scalar implicatures are inferences that arise when a weak expression is used instead of a stronger alternative. For example, when a speaker says, "Some of the children are in the classroom," she often implies that not all of them are. Recent processing studies of scalar implicatures have argued that generating an implicature carries a…
Descriptors: Inferences, Language Usage, Sentences, Accuracy
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Chetail, Fabienne; Content, Alain – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The processes and the cues determining the orthographic structure of polysyllabic words remain far from clear. In the present study, we investigated the role of letter category (consonant vs. vowels) in the perceptual organization of letter strings. In the syllabic counting task, participants were presented with written words matched for the…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonemes, Language Processing, Alphabets
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McKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Memory and Language, 2013
In the domain of discourse processing, it has been claimed that older adults (60-0-year-olds) are less likely to encode and remember some kinds of information from texts than young adults. The experiment described here shows that they do make a particular kind of inference to the same extent that college-age adults do. The inferences examined were…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Theory Practice Relationship, Young Adults, Inferences