Priming implicatures in young children

Psychology

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Alternatives, Child language, Scalar implicature, Structural priming

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Priming implicatures in young children. / Rees, Alice; Carter, Ellie; Bott, Lewis.
2021. 2142-2148 Paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria.

Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

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Rees, A, Carter, E & Bott, L 2021, 'Priming implicatures in young children', Paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria, 26/07/21 - 29/07/21 pp. 2142-2148. <https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8125t68p>

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Rees, A., Carter, E., & Bott, L. (2021). Priming implicatures in young children. 2142-2148. Paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8125t68p

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Rees A, Carter E, Bott L. Priming implicatures in young children. 2021. Paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria.

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Rees, Alice ; Carter, Ellie ; Bott, Lewis. / Priming implicatures in young children. Paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria.7 p.

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