@inproceedings{5ce1c1c4a9374220860aa1fac354daee,
title = "Priming implicatures in young children",
abstract = "Children struggle to derive scalar implicatures. Initially this was thought to relate to a lack of cognitive resources required for the computation. More recently however, there has been a shift towards the alternatives(what a speaker could have said but did not). The argument isthat children struggle to make the scalar implicature associated with somebecause they are unawareofits relationship withthe stronger alternative all. We present a priming study that investigates this. We show that children{\textquoteright}s implicatures can be primed equally by alternatives in quantifier and ad hoc expressions. This suggests that children are aware of the scalar relationship between someand all, even if they choose not to derive the implicature.",
keywords = "structural priming, scalar implicature, alternatives, child language",
author = "Alice Rees and Ellie Carter and L. Bott",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781713835257",
volume = "43",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society",
publisher = "Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "2142--2148",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society",
note = "43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021 ; Conference date: 26-07-2021 Through 29-07-2021",
}