In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …
The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory. How do children begin to use language? How does …
A conversational implicature is an inference that consists of attributing to a speaker an implicit meaning that goes beyond the explicit linguistic meaning of an utterance. This paper …
E Machery, S Stich, D Rose, A Chatterjee, K Karasawa… - Noûs, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we present evidence that in four different cultural groups that speak quite different languages (Brazil, India, Japan, and the USA) there are cases of justified true …
M Grigoroglou, PA Ganea - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability to entertain and reflect on possibilities is a crucial component of human reasoning. However, the origin of this reasoning—whether it is language-based or not—is …
D Wilson - Meaning and relevance, 2012 - books.google.com
Several strands of research on metarepresentation have a bearing on the study of linguistic communication. On the whole, there has been little interaction among them, and the …
How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …
This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other …
E Stephens, S Suarez, M Koenig - Advances in child development and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Testimony provides children with a rich source of knowledge about the world and the people in it. However, testimony is not guaranteed to be veridical, and speakers vary greatly in both …