The aim of this paper is to establish a specific view of linguistic understanding based on the framework of normative inferentialism. Normative inferentialism is presented as an overspecification (rich) account of meaning—the meaning of a sentence is understood as a cluster of context-dependent contents. The standard psychological mechanism responsible for reaching understanding of an utterance depends on the ability to eliminate contextually irrelevant aspects/parts of meaning. The advantages of the view are that the mechanism can (a) explain a wide range of linguistic phenomena including polysemy, homonymy, and conversational implicatures, and (b) explain partial understanding of an utterance.

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语言理解的规范推理

本文的目的是建立一个基于规范推理框架的语言理解的具体观点。规范推理被呈现为对意义的过度指定（丰富）说明——句子的意义被理解为一组依赖于上下文的内容。负责理解话语的标准心理机制取决于消除与上下文无关的方面/部分含义的能力。该观点的优点是该机制可以 (a) 解释广泛的语言现象，包括多义词、同音词和会话含义，以及 (b) 解释对话语的部分理解。