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Title: A diminished propensityto compute scalar implicaturesis linked to autistic traits Authors: ID Mazzaggio, Greta (Author) ID Surian, Luca (Author) Files: This document has no files that are freely available to the public. This document may have a physical copy in the library of the organization, check the status via COBISS.  Language: English Work type: Unknown Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article Organization: UNG - University of Nova Gorica Abstract: We investigated whether there is an association between autistic traits in the broader pheno- type and the ability to compute scalar implicatures. Previous studies found that the frequency of autistic traits is higher in students of science than of humanities. Here we recorded the frequency of rejection of underinformative scalar items in students enrolled either in a science or in a humanities curriculum and assessed their autistic traits using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaire. We found that rejec- tions were less frequent in science curricula students than in humanities curricula students. Moreover, rejections were associated negatively with autistic traits and positively with performance on Theory- of-Mind tasks. These findings suggest that autism cognitive phenotype is negatively associated with a propensity to spontaneously derive scalar implicatures. Keywords: scalar implicatures, quantifiers, Autism-spectrum Quotient, pragmatics, theory of mind Year of publishing: 2018 Number of pages: str. 651-668 Numbering: Vol. 65, iss. 4 PID: 20.500.12556/RUNG-6744  COBISS.SI-ID: 76858883  UDC: 81'23 ISSN on article: 2559-8201 DOI: 10.1556/2062.2018.65.4.4  NUK URN: URN:SI:UNG:REP:KPH2EWDD Publication date in RUNG: 17.09.2021 Views: 2666 Downloads: 0 Metadata:    Cite this work Plain text BibTeX EndNote XML EndNote/Refer RIS ABNT ACM Ref AMA APA Chicago 17th Author-Date Harvard IEEE ISO 690 MLA Vancouver : Copy citation

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Title:	Acta linguistica academica. ǂan ǂinternational journal of linguistics
Shortened title:	Acta linguist. acad.
Publisher:	Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN:	2559-8201
COBISS.SI-ID:	4919291

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