Most theories of pragmatics and language processing predict that speakers avoid excessive informational redundancy. Informationally redundant utterances are, however, quite common in natural dialogue. From a comprehension standpoint, it remains unclear how comprehenders interpret these utterances, and whether they make attempts to reconcile the ‘dips’ in informational utility with expectations of ‘appropriate’ or ‘rational’ speaker informativity. We show that informationally redundant (overinformative) utterances can trigger pragmatic inferences that increase utterance utility in line with comprehender expectations. In a series of three studies, we look at utterances which refer to stereotyped event sequences describing common activities (s...
The distinction between semantics (linguistically-encoded meaning) and pragmatics (inferences about ...
Linguistic communication requires understanding of words in relation to their context. Among various...
In two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, we determined to what extent Grice’s maxim of info...
Empirical studies have demonstrated that when comprehenders are faced with informationally redundant...
Contrary to the Gricean maxims of quantity (Grice, in: Cole, Morgan (eds) Syntax and semantics: spee...
In referential communication, Grice's Maxim of Quantity is thought to imply that utterances conveyin...
Human communication relies on shared expectations between speakers and hearers. For example, upon he...
It is often claimed that, because of semantic underdetermination, one can determine the content of a...
In referential communication, Grice's Maxim of Quantity is thought to imply that utterances conveyin...
It is commonplace to observe that utterances can convey more information than they explicitly encode...
When interpreting a sentence such as Every time the company fires an employee who comes in late, a u...
When speakers refer to the same referent multiple times in a conversation, they tend to follow estab...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2018.Human lan...
How do we decide what to say to ensure our meanings will be understood? The Rational Speech Act mode...
Speakers tend to attenuate information that is predictable or repeated. To what extent is this done ...
The distinction between semantics (linguistically-encoded meaning) and pragmatics (inferences about ...
Linguistic communication requires understanding of words in relation to their context. Among various...
In two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, we determined to what extent Grice’s maxim of info...
Empirical studies have demonstrated that when comprehenders are faced with informationally redundant...
Contrary to the Gricean maxims of quantity (Grice, in: Cole, Morgan (eds) Syntax and semantics: spee...
In referential communication, Grice's Maxim of Quantity is thought to imply that utterances conveyin...
Human communication relies on shared expectations between speakers and hearers. For example, upon he...
It is often claimed that, because of semantic underdetermination, one can determine the content of a...
In referential communication, Grice's Maxim of Quantity is thought to imply that utterances conveyin...
It is commonplace to observe that utterances can convey more information than they explicitly encode...
When interpreting a sentence such as Every time the company fires an employee who comes in late, a u...
When speakers refer to the same referent multiple times in a conversation, they tend to follow estab...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2018.Human lan...
How do we decide what to say to ensure our meanings will be understood? The Rational Speech Act mode...
Speakers tend to attenuate information that is predictable or repeated. To what extent is this done ...
The distinction between semantics (linguistically-encoded meaning) and pragmatics (inferences about ...
Linguistic communication requires understanding of words in relation to their context. Among various...
In two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, we determined to what extent Grice’s maxim of info...