Detecting ignorance inferences: Experimental evidence from superlative modifiers and deontic modals

Ignorance inferences have been mostly discussed in analyses that capture the reasoning involved in calculating scalar implicatures (e.g. Gazdar 1979, Horn 2001, Sauerland 2004). However, the effect of the speaker’s epistemic state on the calculation of implicatures and in particular on igno-rance inferences has only recently been experimentally studied (Bergen & Grodner 2012 in adult