Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface : Language Production and Interpretation
Subtitle: Linguistics Meets Cognition
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789004252905
Description: A model of production and interpretation of natural language utterances is developed which explains why communication is normally fast and successful. Interpretation is taken to be analogous with visual perception in finding the most probable hypothesis that explains the utterance.