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between them.
To the latter three processes, relevance theorists have added further ones
that make for "explicatures" as described above. There is what Recanati
(1993, 2001) calls "saturation," the plugging in of an appropriate value to an
underlying position in logical form: "This way is shorter" (than what way?);
"I am too old" (for what?); "Are you strong enough in the legs?" (to do
what?). There is also "free enrichment" (Recanati 1993; Carston 2002), when
there seems to be an "unarticulated" (not just unvoiced or unpronounced)
constituent of what is said even though there is no even covert hole in logical
form or other specifically linguistic control: "I've eaten" (the most recent
meal); "It's raining" (in such-and-such location); "Our building is some
distance away" (far enough that it would take contextually considerable time
to get there). Sentence (6) above ("She put down the letter, shed a single tear,