This thesis offers a general game theoretic model of language use and interpretation and
applies it to linguistic pragmatics in the vein of (Grice 1989). The model presented here …

Children have repeatedly been found to exhibit Principle B violations, with some reports that
these violations occur only with nonquantified antecedents. This quantificational asymmetry …

This dissertation investigates the acquisition of language-specific constraints on scope
interpretation by Japanese preschool children. Several constructions in Japanese do not …

Though preschoolers in certain experimental contexts strongly prefer to interpret ambiguous
sentences containing quantified NPs and negation on the basis of surface syntax …

Implicatures serve as an important testing ground for examining the process of integrating
semantic and pragmatic information. Starting with Bott & Noveck (2004), several studies …

A recent influential experimental finding in pragmatics is that of scalar diversity: that different
lexical items vary robustly in how likely they are to lead to scalar inference. For instance …

Büring and Hartmann (2001) and Reis (2005) discuss reconstruction data with focus
particles in German which they claim show that German allows adjunction of phonologically …

Previous research has revealed that different scalar expressions give rise to scalar
inferences (SIs) at different rates. This variation has been termed scalar diversity. In this …

This paper provides a critical review of recent work on children's interpretation of scopally
ambiguous sentences. Our question is whether current generalizations about scope …

This dissertation explores the phenomenon of polarity-sensitive quantificational
strengthening. I claim that under certain conditions, specific expressions can strengthen from …