Perceptual representations of objects and approximate magnitudes are often invoked as
building blocks that children combine to acquire the positive integers. Systems of numerical …

Human communication requires impressive inferential abilities and mind-reading skills. To
learn how to speak and become competent communicators children need both. The …

When interpreting disjunctive sentences of the form 'A or B', young children have been
reported to differ from adults in two ways. First, children have been reported to interpret …

In sentences such as “Some dogs are mammals,” the literal semantic meaning (“Some and
possibly all dogs are mammals”) conflicts with the pragmatic meaning (“Not all dogs are …

We investigated “scalar implicature” in adolescents and children with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) to test whether theory of mind deficits associated with autism affect pragmatic …

Mikhail Kissine's (2021) target article examines autism in order to mine questions about
language use and its cognitive underpinnings. Among these, we focus on the question …

Theories of meaning propose that listeners understand a speaker's implicit meaning thanks
to mutually assumed norms of conversation that take into account what the speaker has …

To become competent communicators, children need to learn that what a speaker means
often goes beyond the literal meaning of what the speaker says. The acquisition of …

Preschoolers often struggle to compute scalar implicatures involving disjunction (or), in
which they are required to strengthen an utterance by negating stronger alternatives, eg to …

This chapter presents an overview of some key topics in research on the development of
pragmatic abilities and their role in language acquisition. It provides an introduction to the …