Alma Veenstra

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alma Veenstra is involved.

Article

Veenstra, Alma, Bart Hollebrandse and Napoleon Katsos 2017 Why some children accept under-informative utterances: Lack of competence or Pragmatic Tolerance? Pragmatics & Cognition 24:2, pp. 297–313 | Article

Binary judgement on under-informative utterances (e.g. Some horses jumped over the fence, when all horses did) is the most widely used methodology to test children’s ability to generate implicatures. Accepting under-informative utterances is considered a failure to generate implicatures. We… read more