Entropy can be defined as the antithesis of well-formed true reports that agree with each other and with the material facts accessible through the experience of one or more competent observers. The abstract convergence (strictly formal, logical agreement) of true narrative representations (TNRs)—ordinary valid reports of facts of experience—makes them formally more complete than fictions, error...

Data from child language comprehension shows that children make errors in interpreting pronouns as late as age 6;6, yet correctly comprehend reflexives from the age of 3;0. On the other hand, data from child language production shows that children correctly produce both pronouns and reflexives from the age of 2 or 3. Current explanations of this asymmetric delay in comprehension have either rej...

Abstract Language employs various coordinators to connect propositions, a subset of which are “logical” in nature and thus analogous the truth operators formal logic. We here focus on two linguistic connectives their negations: conjunction (inclusive) disjunction or . Linguistic exhibit truth-conditional component as part meaning (their semantics), but use context can give rise implicatures pre...

Abstract Efficient communication requires the interplay of linguistic, cognitive and social skills, including ability to make contextual inferences understand others’ intentions emotions. The capacity effectively use language in specific contexts (i.e., pragmatic ability) develops with age, an assessment this is important for understanding both typical atypical development. Pragma test was orig...

This paper propo~s a reversible architecture to handle not orily syntactic and semantic information but also pragmatic information. • I Existing architectures cannot represent pragmatic informatioil explicitly, and lack reasoning capability;given insufficient information. I argue that the techniques of plan representation and approximate reasoning are, in the enhanced argumentation system propo...

Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently during information-seeking dialogs in task domains. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances. Discourse expectations and focusing heuristics are used to facilitate recognition of an information-seeker's intent in uttering an elliptical fragment. The ellipsis is comprehended by identifying both the as...