2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
From Inference to Meaning: Experimental Study on Reasoning with Quantifiers Some and Most
verfasst von : Maria Spychalska
Erschienen in: Logic, Language, and Computation
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We report on the results of our reasoning experiments concerning direct inferences with quantifiers:
some
,
most
,
all
. We investigated scalar implicatures of
some
and
most
, as well as inferences from
all
to
most
, from
all
to
some
and from
most
to
some
. Based on our results, we propose that scalar implicatures are context-independent and default in this sense that the pragmatic interpretation of the lexical item with which they are connected is preferred in communication. Following Mostowski and Wojtyniak (2004), we observe that meaning of a sentence may be established in two ways: via inference relations in which a sentence stays (
inferential meaning
) and by investigating how users of the language evaluate the truth-value of the sentence (
referential meaning
). We treat the pragmatic reading of
some
and
most
as their inferential meaning, whereas the logical reading of those quantifiers accounts for the referential meaning. Explaining our results, we attribute the stronger acceptance of inferences from
all
to
most
and from
most
to
some
when compared to acceptance of inferences from
all
to
some
to vagueness of
some
and
most
.