Hearing meanings: the revenge of context.

According to the perceptual view of language comprehension, listeners typically recover high-level linguistic properties such as utterance meaning without inferential work. The perceptual view is subject to the Objection from Context: since utterance meaning is massively context-sensitive, and conte...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 198; no. 6; pp. 5229 - 5253
Autores principales: Gasparri, Luca, Murez, Michael
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2021
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          Institut für Philosophie, Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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      ab: According to the perceptual view of language comprehension, listeners typically recover high-level linguistic properties such as utterance meaning without inferential work. The perceptual view is subject to the Objection from Context: since utterance meaning is massively context-sensitive, and context-sensitivity requires cognitive inference, the perceptual view is false. In recent work, Berit Brogaard provides a challenging reply to this objection. She argues that in language comprehension context-sensitivity is typically exercised not through inferences, but rather through top-down perceptual modulations or perceptual learning. This paper provides a complete formulation of the Objection from Context and evaluates Brogaards reply to it. Drawing on conceptual considerations and empirical examples, we argue that the exercise of context-sensitivity in language comprehension does, in fact, typically involve inference.
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