Availability and Timing of Informativity Inferences

A Rees, H Rohde - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Conversational partners expect each other to communicate rationally and cooperatively and
to contribute relevant and informative utterances. Occasionally, however, speakers produce …

Word Learning

N Rivera-Vera - 2024 - lotpublications.nl
How we learn words1 has long been the subject of debate in psycholinguistics, with several
proposals for word learning being put forward, among which two stand out: intentional (or …

Thinking Out Loud: Children Use Conversational Cues to Infer Underlying Mental States

B Morris - 2024 - knowledge.uchicago.edu
In conversation, much is communicated without being directly said. By leveraging an
understanding of how language relates to mental states and processes, communication …