How endpoint salience and semantic distance shape L2 implicature derivation behavior in gradable adjective scales
Published online on July 07, 2026
Abstract
Second Language Research, Ahead of Print.
Research on scalar implicatures has increasingly highlighted ‘scalar diversity’, showing that pragmatic inferences vary systematically across lexical scales rather than arising uniformly. Two factors pertaining to the semantic structure of adjectives are ...
Research on scalar implicatures has increasingly highlighted ‘scalar diversity’, showing that pragmatic inferences vary systematically across lexical scales rather than arising uniformly. Two factors pertaining to the semantic structure of adjectives are ...