The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that
attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics …

Understanding language requires more than the use of fixed conventions and more than
decoding combinatorial structure. Instead, comprehenders make exquisitely sensitive …

Spectacular progress in the information processing sciences (machine learning, wearable
sensors) promises to revolutionize the study of cognitive development. Here, we analyse the …

How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

Utterances such as “Megan ate some of the cupcakes” are often interpreted as “Megan ate
some but not all of the cupcakes”. Such an interpretation is thought to arise from a pragmatic …

We present evidence that preschool children oftentimes understand disjunctive sentences
as if they were conjunctive. The result holds for matrix disjunctions as well as disjunctions …

Do children know when people tell the truth but not the whole truth? Here we show that
children accurately evaluate informants who omit information and adjust their exploratory …

To assess children's cognitive capacities to understand (rather than explain or paraphrase)
metaphors, we investigated how 3-year-olds (n= 36; 3; 0–3; 3) fare with novel metaphors …

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 …

Children's pragmatic competence in deriving conversational implicatures (and scalar
implicatures in particular) offers an intriguing standpoint to explore how developmental …