Add to ORKGIn this article, I defend an account of linguistic comprehension on which meaning is not cognized, or on which we do not tacitly know our language's semantics. On this view, sentence comprehension is explained instead by our capacity to translate sentences into the language of thought. I explain how this view can explain our capacity to correctly interpret novel utterances, and then I defend it against several standing objections
It can seem a truism that to understand a language is to know what its expressions mean
Do we perceptually experience meanings? For example, when we hear an utterance of a sentence like ‘B...
Gibbs (2002) argues that there is no psycholinguistic evidence for the existence of linguistic seman...
In this article, I defend an account of linguistic comprehension on which meaning is not cognized, o...
In recent years the view that understanding a language requires knowing what its words and expressio...
The paper presents a number of empirical arguments for the perceptual view of speech comprehension. ...
Stojnić holds the radical view that coherence relations determine the reference of context-sensitive...
2012-07-25This book defends a theory of linguistic understanding, or what is alternatively called li...
It is commonly held that there are internal links between understanding and assent such that being s...
In this article, I argue that if tacit knowledge of grammar is analyzable in functional-computationa...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Februar...
It can seem a truism that to understand a language is to know what its expressions mean
Do we perceptually experience meanings? For example, when we hear an utterance of a sentence like ‘B...
Gibbs (2002) argues that there is no psycholinguistic evidence for the existence of linguistic seman...
In this article, I defend an account of linguistic comprehension on which meaning is not cognized, o...
In recent years the view that understanding a language requires knowing what its words and expressio...
The paper presents a number of empirical arguments for the perceptual view of speech comprehension. ...
Stojnić holds the radical view that coherence relations determine the reference of context-sensitive...
2012-07-25This book defends a theory of linguistic understanding, or what is alternatively called li...
It is commonly held that there are internal links between understanding and assent such that being s...
In this article, I argue that if tacit knowledge of grammar is analyzable in functional-computationa...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Februar...
It can seem a truism that to understand a language is to know what its expressions mean
Do we perceptually experience meanings? For example, when we hear an utterance of a sentence like ‘B...
Gibbs (2002) argues that there is no psycholinguistic evidence for the existence of linguistic seman...