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    It is not the case that Lepore and Stone's disambiguator proliferation concern backfires here: postulating a temporally ambiguous 'and' multiplies lexical entries precisely where relevance-theoretic enrichment already provides a leaner, unified explanation.

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    • 1.Relevance theory's enrichment mechanism may itself require implicit semantic parameters, merely relocating ambiguity.
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    • 2.If 'and' has systematically different temporal interpretations across contexts, lexical ambiguity better captures this conventionalization.
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    • 3.Enrichment explanations risk unfalsifiability: nearly any interpretation can be justified post-hoc as pragmatically optimal.
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    • 1.Relevance theory explains temporal ambiguity in 'and' through pragmatic enrichment without multiplying lexical entries.
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    • 2.Proliferating disambiguators violates parsimony: a unified mechanism is preferable to lexical multiplication.
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    • 3.Enrichment accounts predict speakers derive temporal readings contextually, matching observed linguistic flexibility.
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