Even more evidence for the emptiness of plurality: An experimental investigation of plural interpretation as a species of implicature
Even more evidence for the emptiness of plurality: An experimental investigation of plural interpretation as a species of implicature
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更多证明多元性空虚的证据：作为一种含义的多元解释的实验研究
DOI：
10.3765/salt.v20i0.2554
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
J. Snedeker
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作者：
H. Pearson;Manizeh Khan;J. Snedeker
在两个实验中，我们测试了一系列理论，这些理论将复数语素的“不止一个”意义成分视为含义，而不是其语义的固有部分（Sauerland et al. 2005，Spector 2007，Zweig 2009）。我们发现，在某些情况下，这一意义成分似乎被取消，在一种含义的方式。我们的研究结果表明，含义是相对难以取消，取消是便利的，采用一种语言环境中，复数标记有助于预设，但不是断言的内容。该研究的一个新的贡献是，当含义有助于预设成分时，它们可能更容易被取消。
In two experiments, we test a family of theories that treat the 'more than one' meaning component of the plural morpheme as an implicature rather than an inherent part of its semantics (Sauerland et al. 2005, Spector 2007, Zweig 2009). We find that under certain circumstances, this meaning component appears to be canceled, in the manner of an implicature. Our findings suggest that the implicature is relatively difficult to cancel, and that cancelation is facilitated by employing a linguistic environment in which plural marking contributes to the presupposed but not the asserted content. The notion that implicatures may be more easily canceled when they contribute to the presuppositional component is a novel contribution of the study.