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1. Is the president оf Geоrgiа Tech synоnymous with Angel Cаbrerа? Can you come up with a sentence where swapping one of these terms for another changes the sentence’s truth value? (if so, they are not synonyms, even if they have the same referent) 2. How do Grice’s Maxims of Quality, Quantity, Relevance, and/or Manner help to explain the following inference in these conversations? (1) A: Do you speak Spanish? B: I speak Portuguese. Infer: B does not speak Spanish (why do we draw this inference?) (2) A: Where is the post office? I have to buy stamps. B: I have stamps. Infer: B has up-to-date USPS stamps (not historic foreign stamps!) and is willing to share them with A. (why do we draw this inference?) (3) A: Do you want to come to the library with me? B: Well, I’m pretty tired. Infer: B does not want to go to the library with A. (4) A: I like coffee with milk. Infer: A likes coffee with cow’s milk, not almond milk or goat milk.
Pleаse diаgnоse if the relаtiоnship between these sentences is a presuppоsition, an entailment, an implicature, or none of these. A presupposition is an assumption about what is already mutually taken to be true “prior” to the utterance. An entailment is an inference which logically follows from a sentence. An implicature is a context-sensitive inference drawn by reasoning about why the speaker said what they said, vs. what they could have said and didn’t say. An implicature can be cancelled, meaning that the speaker can coherently retract/deny the implicature; whereas it is incoherent for a speaker to try to cancel entailments or presuppositions. A presupposition survives under negation or if you turn the sentence into a question, whereas an entailment does not. It’s kind of late. / I want to go home. I run every day. / I exercise every day. Some students did well on the test. / Not all students did well on the test. Some students did well on the test. / There was a test; there are students. Teaching is rewarding, research is interesting, conferences are fun, and applying to jobs is part of the process. / The speaker doesn’t enjoy applying to jobs. It’s fixin’ to rain. / The speaker is from the south. As for whether I liked the movie -- the costumes were stunning. / I didn’t like the movie. I’m from Atlanta. / I’m from the USA.