Research Group Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology.
Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.
Cogn Sci. 2022 May;46(5):e13138. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13138.
We propose a cognitive-psychological model of linguistic intuitions about copredication statements. In copredication statements, like "The book is heavy and informative," the nominal denotes two ontologically distinct entities at the same time. This has been considered a problem for standard truth-conditional semantics. In this paper, we discuss two questions that have so far received less attention: What kinds of word representations and cognitive mechanisms are responsible for judgments about the felicitousness of copredication statements? Relatedly, why can similar copredication statements have different degrees of felicitousness? We first propose a cognitive-computational model of copredication within the predictive processing framework. We then suggest that certain asymmetries in felicitousness judgments can be modeled in terms of a set of expectations that are influenced by higher-order priors associated with discourse context and world knowledge.
我们提出了一个关于并置语句语言直觉的认知心理学模型。在并置语句中，例如“这本书又重又有信息量”，名词同时表示两个在本体论上不同的实体。这一直被认为是标准真值条件语义学的一个问题。在本文中，我们讨论了两个到目前为止较少受到关注的问题：是什么样的词汇表示和认知机制负责判断并置语句的恰当性？相关地，为什么类似的并置语句会有不同程度的恰当性？我们首先在预测处理框架内提出了一个并置的认知计算模型。然后我们建议，可以根据一组受话语语境和世界知识相关高阶先验影响的期望来对恰当性判断中的某些不对称进行建模。
