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Interaction of prosody and speaker knowledge in scalar implicature

This is a follow-up on de Marneffe & Tonhauser, testing whether the rise-fall-rise contour interacts with the speaker's knowledge state. In particular, if the RFR doesn't have a pre-defined "uncertainty" meaning, but rather is interpreted in a context-dependent way, we expect:

  1. Scalar implicatures should be stronger when RFR is present and speaker is knowledgeable compared to neutral prosodic baseline.
  2. Scalar implicatures should be weaker when RFR is present and speaker is ignorant compared to neutral prosodic baseline.

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