Language is one of the important aspects key to understanding specific goals and purposes used by people around world, language as a tool serves significant communication developing in human civilization. this evidenced many types supporting applications, Praat program which can change sound waves that previously could only be heard now become visible eye. In addition, program, equipped with de...

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...

Abstract I identify a class of expressions called ‘emotive markers,’ exemplified by fortunately and alas, which encode not-at-issue information about the speaker’s emotive attitude towards content utterances they occur in. argue that there are important differences markers other encoders content, in particular utterance modifiers like frankly or evidential adverbs apparently. In contrast to the...

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...