Knowledge and Implicature: Modeling Language Understanding as Social Cognition

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-184

  Goodman, Noah D ^a   Stuhlmüller, Andreas ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Language; Scalar implicature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPREHENSION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872745069     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12007     Document Type: Article

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