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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Pragmatic inference"”.
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The interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion
… thesis is concerned with the interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion. Pragmatic inference refers to inferences that hearers or observers make when attempting to arrive at speaker meaning, a process during which they presumably operate according to the Maxims postulated by Grice …
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Scalar implicatures in children: alternatives and relevance
… an interpretation is thought to arise from a pragmatic inference called Scalar Implicature (SI). Preschoolers typically fail to spontaneously generate SIs without the assistance of training or context that makes the stronger alternative salient. However, the exact role of alternatives in …
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Joint inference in pragmatic reasoning
… Bayesian cognitive science to formalize Gricean pragmatic reasoning [29, 28, 36, 51]. In the first part of this work, we discuss several phenomena which pose a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures [45] and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford's constraint [49, 16]. …
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Six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic: A syntactic and pragmatic analysis
… it I will attempt to determine the syntactic and pragmatic roles of each marker, describing its function in discourse. The final analysis will be based on the pragmatic model of relevance theory.</p> <p>I have based my study on thirty-two (32) texts in Tunisian Arabic, looking at …
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FMRI studies of the relationship between language and theory of mind in adult cognition
… have been shaped by communicative pressures; b) pragmatic inference is prevalent in language; c) aspects of ToM are important for language acquisition; and d) language is, in turn, critical for acquiring some of the more complex aspects of ToM. But interestingly, prior neuroimaging and patient …
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Pragmatic word learning in monolingual and bilingually exposed children
… of studies investigating attention to socio-pragmatic speaker cues found increased reliance on speaker cues in bilinguals (Colunga, Brojde, & Ahmed, 2012; Yow & Markman, 2011a, 2015). However, since these studies involved ignoring another conflicting cue, the results could have been related …
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
… investigate the roles of language dominance and pragmatic competence in how heritage speakers of Mandarin Chinese process aspectual coercion in their non-dominant home language, as compared to late bilinguals. Specifically, constructions that vary in acceptability and salience in input between …
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The pragmatics of repetition, emphasis and intensification
… utterances and forms. Within Relevance Theory pragmatics, pragmatic stylistics generally, and in some areas of linguistics proper, stylistic repetition is understudied and under-understood. The term is applied to a rag-tag muddle of phenomena that have little in common from the point of view of …
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Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations of scalar implicature
… potentials (ERPs) to examine whether inferential pragmatic aspects of meaning are processed using different mechanisms than lexical or combinatorial semantic aspects of meaning, and whether inferential aspects of meaning can be realized rapidly. Participants read infelicitous quantifiers for which …
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Aging and Referential Communication: Insights from Interactions with Artificial Agents
… examined potential age-related differences in pragmatic inferencing during comprehension. Like younger adults, older listeners generated inferences based on relevant visual information, but had more difficulty suppressing these inferences when warranted (i.e., when a robot speaker had limited …