Inferring word meanings by assuming that speakers are informative

2014

87 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

Citations in the corpus

• Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference. (2016, unknown): “And children in the same age range were able to use an implicature to guess the meaning of a novel word [25] or a novel context [38], showing the kind of inferential flexibility posited in RSA accounts.”