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scalar diversity: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

finding that the rate at which hearers draw upper-bound scalar inferences differs widely from one lexical scale to another.

In pragmatics, scalar diversity refers to finding that the rate at which hearers draw upper-bound scalar inferences differs widely from one lexical scale to another. This meaning comes from Van Tiel (2014) in Journal of Semantics.[1]

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diversity3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs scalar2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs scale3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Van Tiel, B., Van Miltenburg, E., Zevakhina, N., & Geurts, B. (2014). Scalar Diversity. Journal of Semantics, ffu017. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffu017

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