Probabilistic integration of linguistic framing in ad-hoc pragmatic implicatures
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Language comprehenders make a wide variety of pragmatic inferences to determine the meaning of ambiguous utterances in context. These inferences are affected by both the informativeness of the alternative messages with respect to an interpretation and the relevance of potential interpretations within the context (Grice, 1975). We use simple referential games to explore the interaction of these two factors, investigating a previously-studied informativeness inference similar to a scalar implicature (Stiller, Goodman, & Frank, 2011).
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تاریخ انتشار 2014