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Singh, Raj; Fedorenko, Evelina; Mahowald, Kyle; Gibson, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2016
According to one view of linguistic information (Karttunen, 1974; Stalnaker, 1974), a speaker can convey contextually new information in one of two ways: (a) by "asserting" the content as new information; or (b) by "presupposing" the content as given information which would then have to be "accommodated." This…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Sentences, Discourse Analysis