Introduction This file contains documentation on West Point Heroico Spanish Speech, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2006S37 and ISBN 1-58563-391-7. West Point He
Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow, a listener might pragmatically infer that ‘Some but not all cats meow’. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a speaker produces a weak
1 - Why isn’t it: 好几天都没说话(了)? Is it because 说话 in this context means “talking/speaking”? E.g. “They haven’t been talking for several days now” Rather than “They didn’t speak / have not spoke for s