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The communicative function of ambiguity in language

Dec 20 2011 The communicative function of ambiguity in language. Steven T. Piantadosi a

The communicative function of ambiguity in language

The communicative function of ambiguity in language. Steven T. Piantadosi. Harry Tily. Edward Gibson. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT.

The communicative function of ambiguity in language

The communicative function of ambiguity in language

The communicative function of ambiguity in language. Steven T. Piantadosi a*.

MIT Open Access Articles The communicative function of ambiguity

The communicative function of ambiguity in language. Steven T. Piantadosi. Harry Tily. Edward Gibson. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT.

Millers Monkey Updated: Communicative Efficiency and the

Sep 9 2020 Is language designed for communicative and functional efficiency? ... Ambiguous words tend to be short

On the Communicative Function of Subject Pronouns in Arabic

pronouns in these languages have very little communicative function and that The sentence is not ambiguous; nor can the subject pronoun have a deictic ...

The Interactions of Rational Pragmatic Agents Lead to Efficient

We examine the behavior of this objective in a series of simulations focusing on the communicative function of ambiguity in language. These simulations suggest 

The Interactions of Rational Pragmatic Agents Lead to Efficient

We examine the behavior of this objective in a series of simulations focusing on the communicative function of ambiguity in language. These simulations suggest 

Expectation-based encoding of grammatical functions in spoken

Sep 19 2020 Language processing is expectation-based: draws upon statistical regularities in the ... The communicative function of ambiguity in language ...

The communicative function of ambiguity in language

Ambiguity is a pervasive phenomenon in languagewhich occurs at all levels of linguistic analysis Out of con-text words have multiple senses and syntactic categoriesrequiring listeners to determine which meaning and partof speech was intended

Is ambiguity a functional property of language?

Our results and theoretical analysis suggest that ambiguity is a functional property of language that allows for greater communicative efficiency. This provides theoretical and empirical arguments against recent suggestions that core features of linguistic systems are not designed for communication. ...

Does ambiguity exist for reasons of communicative efficiency?

We therefore interpret positive results in each as strong evidence for the view that ambiguity exists for reasons of communicative efficiency. We note, however, that the languages tested are historically-related, meaning that further work will be needed to establish stronger typological generalizations.

Is ambiguity a functionalist theory?

The existence of ambiguity provides a puzzle for functionalist theories which attempt to explain properties of linguistic systems in terms of communicative pressures (e.g. Hockett, 1960, Pinker and Bloom, 1990 ). One might imagine that in a perfect communication system, language would completely disambiguate meaning.

Is ambiguity a problem in real-world communication?

These findings suggest that ambiguity is not enough of a problem to real-world communication that speakers would make much effort to avoid it. This may well be because actual language in context provides other information that resolves the ambiguities most of the time.