Talker-specific generalization of pragmatic inferences based on under- and over-informative prenominal adjective use
According to Grice’s (1975) Maxim of Quantity, rational talkers formulate their utterances to be as economical as possible while conveying all necessary information. Naturally produced referential expressions, however, often contain more or less information than what is predicted to be optimal given...
Main Authors: | Amanda ePogue, Chigusa eKurumada, Michael K Tanenhaus |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02035/full |
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