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SUMMARY:Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel
  task - Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:There are several influential views on whether some form of th
 eory of mind is required to derive pragmatic inferences. In this presentat
 ion I will share with you a new task that colleagues and I have designed w
 here success depends on sensitivity to the pragmatic maxim of informativen
 ess\, to perspective-taking\, or to both. Using this task with neurotypica
 l children and neurotypical and autistic adults\, we find that (i) some li
 steners reliably derive pragmatic inferences without taking into account t
 he perspective of the speaker\, and that (ii) their propensity to take int
 o account the perspective of the speaker is affected by what they\, the li
 steners\, see from their perspective. I will use these findings to suggest
  that listeners may but need not represent the epistemic state of the actu
 al speaker in order to derive implicatures\, and the implementation of the
 ory of mind is subject to metacognitive monitoring. I don't think that the
 se findings speak in favour of any particular theory of implicature but I 
 think that they do contribute towards a psycholinguistic model of implicat
 ure derivation.
LOCATION:English Faculty\, GR05
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