Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason
about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn't. For such …

Speakers exhibit variability in their choice between uncertainty expressions such as might
and probably. Recent work has found that listeners cope with such variability by updating …

It is commonplace to observe that utterances can convey more information than they
explicitly encode. Indeed, the field of pragmatics has grown from the insight that speakers …

Contrastive inferences, whereby a listener pragmatically infers a speaker's referential
intention of a partial referring expression like the yellow by reasoning about other objects in …

According to Maxim of Quantity, rational talkers formulate their utterances to be as
economical as possible while conveying all necessary information. Naturally produced …

Two psychological sources of uncertainty bear implications for judgment and decision-
making: external uncertainty is seen as stemming from properties of the world, whereas …

Pragmatic inferences are an integral part of language learn-ing and comprehension. To
recover the intended meaning of an utterance, listeners need to balance and integrate …

Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. Listeners can rapidly
integrate intonational information to predictively map a given pitch accent onto the speaker's …

Predictions allow for efficient human communication. To be efficient, listeners' predictions
need to be adapted to the communicative context. Here we show that during speech …

To correctly interpret a message, people must attend to the context in which it was produced.
Here we investigate how this process, known as pragmatic reasoning, is guided by two …