Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a puzzle involving accommodation. based on three assumptions. first assumption that accommodation takes place after an utterance. second can make difference the truth-value utterance even if not about future. third something cannot unless Since these assumptions are jointly inconsistent, one them must be false. question which we ought...

Several matters pertaining to the notion of “utterance-finality” are presented here, as a way of framing the issues that the serious investigation of this notion entails. Attention is paid to matters of description, synchronic analysis, and diachrony, with particular focus on the use that has been made of utterance-final phenomena in language as a way of explaining apparent exceptions to the Ne...

Utterance verification can be seen as a conventional pattern classification problem in which a feature vector is obtained for each hypothesized word in order to classify it as either correct or incorrect. In this paper, we study the application to this problem of an optimized version of the -Nearest Neighbour decision rule which also incorporates an adequate feature selection technique. Experim...

Aspects of utterance meaning It is widely accepted within pragmatics that there is a distinction to be made between the explicit content and the implicit import of an utterance. There is much less agreement about the precise nature of this distinction, how it is to be drawn, and whether any such two-way distinction can do justice to the levels and kinds of meaning involved in utterance interpre...

Although there are a number of tools for annotating dialogue, little work has been done in visualizing differences among annotations. Visualization of differences in annotation should help in doing consensus annotation, refining an annotation scheme and training novice annotators. In this paper, we present a graphical Annotation Comparison Tool (ACT), which displays multiple annotations side by...

In this paper, we propose to use neighborhood information in model space to perform utterance verification (UV). At first, we present a nested-neighborhood structure for each underlying model in model space and assume the underlying model’s competing models sit in one of these neighborhoods, which is used to model alternative hypothesis in UV. Bayes factors (BF) is first introduced to UV and us...

In his chapter “Performative and Passionate Utterance” which appears in Philosophy The Day After Tomorrow, Stanley Cavell makes a claim for what he describes as the expressive or passional aspects of speech. This claim (plea might be a more appropriate term) is, in part, a response to what Cavell regards as a missed opportunity or failing in Austin’s theory of the performative utterance, an opp...