Alternatives and competition in language are pervasive at all levels of linguistic analysis.
More specifically, alternatives have been argued to play a prominent role in an ever-growing …

Scalar inferences (SI) are a signature example of how humans interpret language based on
unspoken alternatives. While empirical studies have demonstrated that human SI rates are …

Recent experimental research has observed two kinds of priming effects on quantity
implicatures. One is the Strong–Weak contrast, where more quantity implicatures are …

We investigate the interactions between scalar implicatures and presuppositions in
sentences containing both a scalar item and presupposition trigger. We first critically discuss …

The typology of the logical vocabulary in natural language is highly skewed. In the domain of
logical connectives, AND and OR are often lexicalized, lexicalizations of NOR are less …

In recent work, has argued, on the basis of both empirical and conceptual considerations,
that relevance (the set of propositions relevant in an utterance context) is closed under …

A disjunctive sentence like Olivia took Logic or Algebra conveys that Olivia didn't take both
classes (exclusivity) and that the speaker doesn't know which of the two classes she took …

During communication, the interpretation of utterances is sensitive to a listener's probabilistic
prior beliefs. In this paper, we focus on the influence of prior beliefs on so‐called exhaustivity …

We show that the interpretation of sentences like John is not very Adj depends on whether
Adj is vague. We argue that this follows from a constraint on the interaction between …

Sentences are standardly assumed to trigger scalar and ignorance implicatures because
there are alternative utterances the speaker could have said. The central question in …