For M 10/15, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1.  Sadock, Jerrold M. 1978. On testing for conversational implicature. In Peter Cole (ed.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 9: Pragmatics, 281-297. New York: Academic Press. 2.  Carston, Robyn. 1988. Implicature, explicature, and truth-theoretic semantics. In Ruth M. Kempson …

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For Tu 10/9, please complete the following two readings, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1.  Geurts, Bart. 2010. Quantity Implicatures, Chap. 3 (‘Scalar Implicatures’) 2.  Papafragou, Anna & Julien Musolino. 2003. Scalar implicatures: Experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Cognition 86: 253-282.