Predicting pragmatic cue integration in adults’ and children’s inferences about novel word meanings.

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Authors

  • Manuel Bohn
  • Michael Henry Tessler
  • Megan Merrick
  • Michael C. Frank

Language is learned in complex social settings where listeners must reconstruct speakers’ intended meanings from context. To navigate this challenge, children can use pragmatic reasoning to learn the meaning of unfamiliar words. A critical challenge for pragmatic reasoning is that it requires integrating multiple information sources, which have typically been studied separately. Here we study this integration process. First, we experimentally isolate two sources of pragmatic information: expectations about informative communication and common ground. Next, we use a probabilistic model of conversational reasoning to formalize how these information sources should be combined and how this process might develop. We use this model to generate quantitative predictions, which we test against new experimental data from 3 to 5-year-old children (N = 243) and adults (N = 694). Results show close alignment between model predictions and data. Furthermore, the model provided a better explanation of the data compared with simpler alternative models assuming that participants selectively ignore one information source.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftJournal of Experimental Psychology: General
Jahrgang151
Ausgabenummer11
Seiten (von - bis)2927-2942
Anzahl der Seiten16
ISSN0096-3445
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 07.04.2022
Extern publiziertJa

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