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SYNTHESE
卷 198, 期 12, 页码 11463-11481出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02807-9
关键词
Linguistic understanding; Turn-taking; What is said; Language processing; Knowledge of language
资金
- DGI, Spanish Government [FFI2016-80588-R]
Most linguistic exchanges are divided into turns, with fast conversational turn-taking. Understanding language involves grasping the contents of utterances and mental states, but research also focuses on the dynamic and temporal aspects of understanding.
The majority of our linguistic exchanges, such as everyday conversations, are divided into turns; one party usually talks at a time, with only relatively rare occurrences of brief overlaps in which there are two (or more) simultaneous speakers. Moreover, conversational turn-taking tends to be very fast. We typically start producing our responses before the previous turn has finished, i.e., before we are confronted with the full content of our interlocutor's utterance. This raises interesting questions about the nature of linguistic understanding. Philosophical theories typically focus on linguistic understanding characterized either as an ability to grasp the contents of utterances in a given language or as outputs of this ability-mental states of one type or another. In this paper, I supplement these theories by developing an account of the process of understanding. I argue that it enables us to capture the dynamic and temporal aspect of understanding and reconcile philosophical investigations with empirical research on language comprehension.
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