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We provide processing evidence that free choice inferences are derived without delay. This result is in conflict with the parsimonious view that free choice inferences are a kind of scalar implicatures (which do come at a processing cost in similar circumstances).
We would like to thank Philippe Schlenker, Benjamin Spector as well as the organizers and two series of two anonymous reviewers of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2011.
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Chemla, E., Bott, L. (2012). Processing: Free Choice at No Cost. In: Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F., Sassoon, G.W., Schulz, K., Westera, M. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_15
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