BLC Talk by Prof. Yasutada Sudo (UCL)

Title: Scalar implicature computation is not blind but incremental

Abstract: Magri (2009) observes that weak scalar items are generally infelicitous when contextually equivalent to their strong counterparts, and proposed that the computation mechanism for scalar implicature is blind to contextually grounded meaning (see also Magri 2011, 2017). I raise some empirical issues against Magri's Contextual Blindness Hypothesis and explore an alternative analysis of his observation based on incremental scalar implicature computation.

When: September 25, 2025 at 3:00PM

Where: JF321 (Seminar Room)