Partial Truths: Adults Choose to Mention Agents and Patients in Proportion to Informativity, Even If It Doesn’t Fully Disambiguate the Message
How do we decide what to say to ensure our meanings will be understood? The Rational Speech Act model (RSA; Frank & Goodman, 2012 ) asserts that speakers plan what to say by comparing the informativity of words in a particular context. We present the first example of an RSA model of sentence...
Main Authors: | Kline, Melissa, Schulz, Laura E, Gibson, Edward A |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MIT Press
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128658 |
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