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Jan 1, 1989 · Inference in Language Understanding 161 A natural interpretation of this result follows from the theory that elaborative inferences are made and encoded on-line. When the first sentence is heard an (elaborative) inference suggests that a spoon is encoded into the memory representation of the sentence, then the encodings of the two sentences will be identical or almost identical.
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The inference in (3), for example, depends on things like how much and what kind of experience you have with vacuums and cats. Another factor in pragmatic variation involves autism. For example, studies have shown that autistic adults and non-autistic adults sometimes have different strategies for drawing inferences in a conversation.
ideas connected to the studies in proof theory and substructural logics. The paper ends with a defense of semantic inferentialism against some of its most challenging critiques. In his paper “Peregrin on the Logic of Inference: Situating the Inferentialist Account of Meaning” Rosen Lutskanov questions one of the
Jan 1, 1989 · Publisher Summary. Since the late 1960, it has been a commonplace in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence that listeners and readers make many inferences in their attempts to understand discourse and text. Inferences serve a variety of functions in text comprehension. Among other things, they can be used to identify an unclearly ...
- Alan Garnham
- 1989
Aug 23, 2018 · Abstract. This chapter on pragmatics and inference provides an overview of the central topics of linguistic pragmatics, while emphasizing that pragmatics has had, with some notable exceptions, only a limited and indirect influence on work in psycholinguistics. Nevertheless, many of the phenomena studied under the head of “inference” in ...
Mar 18, 2024 · The inference in (3), for example, depends on things like how much and what kind of experience you have with vacuums and cats. Another factor in pragmatic variation involves autism. For example, studies have shown that autistic adults and non-autistic adults sometimes have different strategies for drawing inferences in a conversation. What is ...
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The current linguistic context must be consulted to infer whether They are eating apples refers to some fruit or some people. For the sentence Mary beat Helen at cards because she was a skillful player, complex inferences of syntax and semantics are required to decide that she probably refers to Mary. Examples of this sort are inexhaustible.
