Phonology and orthography in deaf readers: Evidence from a lateralized ambiguity resolution paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 675-698
Author(s):  
Haim Assor ◽  
Paul Miller ◽  
Orna Peleg ◽  
Zohar Eviatar
Keyword(s):  
Ambiguity Resolution ◽  
Deaf Readers

The influence of picture priming on ambiguity resolution during reading

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brianna M. Eiter ◽  
Kristin M. Weingartner ◽  
David S. Gorfein ◽  
Vincent R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Ambiguity Resolution

On Convention and Coherence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kehler ◽  
Jonathan Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Ambiguity Resolution ◽  
Adequate Account ◽  
Language Understanding ◽  
Pragmatic Enrichment

A bedrock principle in pragmatics is that the linguistic signals produced by speakers generally underdetermine the meanings that are communicated to interpreters. For Grice, for instance, utterance meaning lies close to what is overtly encoded, allowing only for the resolution of indexicals, tense, reference, and ambiguity. Lepore and Stone (L&S) agree, but with a stunning twist: they analyze all extrasemantic content as being derived from ambiguity resolution, leaving no work for Gricean tools. Despite significant areas of concurrence with L&S, we ultimately find their analysis to be untenable. To establish this, we focus on a form of pragmatic enrichment that recruits coherence establishment processes to apply within the clause—‘eliciture’—for which we see no credible analysis in terms of ambiguity resolution. We argue that an adequate account of language understanding must recognize the robust roles of both ambiguity resolution and pragmatic enrichment, using tense interpretation as a case study.

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