Optimal Communication

By: Reinhard Blutner (Editor), Helen de Hoop (Editor), Petra Hendriks (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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This volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the role of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of meaning. Optimal Communication surveys recent research in the fields of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and draws from optimality theory to argue that optimal meanings result from a compromise between competing constraints. Optimal Communication will be an invaluable resource for students in cognitive science, linguistics, and natural language semantics.

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Acknowledgments	p. viii
Preface	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Optimality Theory as a Theory of Knowledge	p. 1
Basic Concepts of OT	p. 3
Language Universals and Language Variation	p. 6
A Brief History of OT	p. 12
Optimization of Interpretation	p. 18
Bidirectional Optimization	p. 22
The Architecture of Grammar	p. 24
Relation to Other Semantic Frameworks	p. 28
An Overview of the Book	p. 33
Recoverability	p. 35
Introduction	p. 35
Movement	p. 36
Deletion	p. 41
Interpreting Comparatives	p. 48
Compositionality	p. 54
Introduction	p. 54
Scrambling of Definites: Productive and Interpretive Optimization	p. 55
Optional Scrambling of Definites in Dutch	p. 55
An OT Syntactic Analysis of Scrambling Definities	p. 59
An OT semantic Analysis of Scrambling Definites	p. 61
Concluding Remarks	p. 63
Optimality Theoretic Semantics	p. 63
Compositionality and the Role of Context	p. 64
Compositionality: A Violable Constraint as well?	p. 70
Interpretive Optimization of Nominal Anaphora	p. 71
Interpretive Optimization of Comparatives	p. 74
Interpretive Optimization of Temporal Anaphora	p. 78
Adverbial Quantification	p. 84
Compositionality and Bidirectionality	p. 87
Scrambling Revisited: A Bidirectional OT Analysis	p. 91
Summary	p. 96
Bidirectionality	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Mental Models and Natural Language Interpretation	p. 97
The Non-Monotonicity of Invited Inferences	p. 101
Blocking	p. 104
Conversational Implicature, Pragmatic Strengthening, and Bidirectional OT	p. 106
An Example: Negative Strengthening	p. 116
Summary	p. 118
Learning	p. 121
Introduction	p. 121
Constraint Demotion	p. 121
The Bootstrap Idea for Learning Hidden Structure	p. 126
Pattern Association and Bidirectional Learning	p. 129
Acquisition of Indefinite Subject and Object Interpretation in Dutch	p. 130
Children's Optimal Interpretation of Pronouns	p. 136
The Gradual Learning Algorithm and Bidirectional Learning	p. 143
Bidirectionality, Recursion, and Evolutionary Learning	p. 147
Summary	p. 150
Foundations	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
An Architecture of Cognition	p. 151
Smolensky's Tensor Product Representations	p. 153
Harmonic Grammar - OT's Predecessor	p. 155
Summary	p. 159
References	p. 161
Index	p. 173
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