defaultist
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1ADJ.
strong
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Of or relating to defaultism.
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One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish".
Hence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist.
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3A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish".
WiktionaryHence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist.
WiktionaryFor Experiment 8, the defaultists could make a similar argument about the absence of an SI-cancellation effect that I made about the absence of an SI-calculation effect.
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