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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"pragmatic inferencing"”.
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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 …
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Children’s development of Quantity, Relevance and Manner implicature understanding and the role of the speaker’s epistemic state
… speaker is informative. On a Gricean approach to pragmatics, this implicated meaning – a quantity implicature – involves reasoning about the speaker’s epistemic state. This thesis examines children’s development of implicature understanding. It seeks to address the question of what the …
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ISOLATING EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF TWO DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND GENERAL AMERICAN ENGLISH
… that differs in phonology, morphosyntax, and pragmatics from General American English (GAE), the dialect of classroom instruction. Empirical research on dialect variation and literacy achievement has demonstrated that linguistic differences between dialects make it more difficult to learn to …
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Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
This thesis is about fixedness, or the process whereby orthographic words group together and congeal into fixed expressions that might subsequently reduce and become single words. The discussion focuses on three levels: realization, conceptualization, and discourse. At the level of realization, …