The paper urges that polysemous phenomena are typically semantic not pragmatic. The part of a message sent by a polysemous expression is typically one of its meanings encoded in the speaker's language and not the result of pragmatic modification. The hearer receives that part of the message by a process of disambiguation, by detecting which item in the lexicon the speaker has selected. This is the best explanation of observed regularities. The paper argues that the experimental evidence from psycholinguistics, particularly that produced in discussions of “underspecification” and “overspecification,” does not undermine this view nor support the pragmatic alternative.

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语义多义和心理语言学

本文敦促多义现象通常在语义上不务实。多义表达发送的消息部分通常是用说话者的语言编码的含义之一，而不是语用修改的结果。收听者通过检测说话者在词典中选择了哪个项目，通过消除歧义的过程来接收那部分消息。这是观察到的规律性的最好解释。该论文认为，心理语言学的实验证据，特别是在讨论“规格不足”和“规格过度”时产生的实验证据，不会破坏这一观点，也不支持务实的选择。