TY - JOUR AU - Storto, Gianluca AU - Tanenhaus, Michael K. PY - 2019/08/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Are Scalar Implicatures Computed Online? JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 9 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2005.v9i0.778 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/778 SP - 431-445 AB - <p>We adopt the<em> visual-world eye-tracking paradigm</em> to test the hypothesis that scalar implicatures are integrated very locally to the utterance of scalar terms. Focusing on the <strong>?and, or?</strong> scale, we show that early point-of-disambiguation effects similar to those triggered by the integration of the lexical meaning of and can be triggered by the integration of the <em>exhaustive</em> meaning of <strong>or</strong>. Some design issues and an independent interpretive asymmetry holding between <strong>and</strong> and <strong>or</strong> are discussed as possible explanations for remaining differences between the effects found in the two cases. We conclude that the exclusivity implicature that is associated to sentences containing or seems to be calculated online, rather locally to the utterance of the disjunction.</p> ER -