Table of Contents

1. Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate; Salvatore Pistoia Reda 2. The Roots of (Scalar) Implicatures; Laurence Horn 3. On the Roles of Markedness and Contradiction in the Use of Alternatives; Roni Katzir 4. Intermediate Scalar Implicatures; Uli Sauerland 5. An Account for the Homogeneity Effect Triggered by Plural Definites and Conjunction Based on Double Strengthening; Giorgio Magri 6. Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge; Benjamin Spector 7. Pragmatic Back-and-forth Reasoning; Michael Franke and Gerhard Jäger, 8. Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures Share the Same Processing Signature; Alexandre Cremers and Emmanuel Chemla ?

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Emmanuel Chemla, École Normale Supérieure, France Alexandre Cremers, École Normale Supérieure, France Michael Franke, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Laurence Horn, Yale University, USA Gerhard Jäger Tübingen University, Germany Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University, Israel Giorgio Magri, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Uli Sauerland, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Germany Benjamin Spector, Institut Jean Nicod, France