LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Implicature, Circumfix, Affix
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Pragmatics: study of how speakers understand what is said in context. Utterance p: sue went to chile or argentina. Inference q: sue did not go to both. Inference is an implicature: p q (here a scalar implicature) From a reasoning about why the speaker chose to utter p rather than p": she went to chili and argentina. P" is more informative than p. the speaker did not use p". Hypothesis 1: children have hard time computing both truth conditions and the alternative statements to compare the representations and choose the most informative statement. Hypothesis 2: children focus on truthfulness or falsity of sentences and not on felicity (or lack thereof) of a sentence in a given situation. Syntax: the elementary parts seem to be words. Sentences are formed based on words and syntactic rules. How about words themselves? (morphology) there is an infinite number of words! Denationalization 5 morphemes: nation, national, nationalize, denationalize, denationalization.
