Fiche du document
- handle: 10670/1.d8606r
- hal: hal-03281849
- doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02398-0
Ce document est lié à :
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s11229-019-02398-0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Sujets proches
Language (New words, slang, etc.) UnderstandingCiter ce document
Luca Gasparri et al., « Hearing meanings: the revenge of context », HAL-SHS : philosophie, ID : 10.1007/s11229-019-02398-0
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
According to the perceptual view of language comprehension, listeners typically recover high-level linguistic properties such as utterance meaning without inferential work. The perceptual view is subject to the Objection from Context: since utterance meaning is massively context-sensitive, and context-sensitivity requires cognitive inference, the perceptual view is false. In recent work, Berit Brogaard provides a challenging reply to this objection. She argues that in language comprehension context-sensitivity is typically exercised not through inferences, but rather through top-down perceptual modulations or perceptual learning. This paper provides a complete formulation of the Objection from Context and evaluates Brogaards reply to it. Drawing on conceptual considerations and empirical examples, we argue that the exercise of context-sensitivity in language comprehension does, in fact, typically involve inference.