Rational speech acts

Slides

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Recording

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Papers

Frank, M. C., & Goodman, N. D. (2014). Inferring word meanings by assuming that speakers are informative. Cognitive Psychology, 75, 80—96.

Goodman, N. D., & Frank, M. C. (2016). Pragmatic language interpretation as probabilistic inference. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 818—829.

Kao, J. T., Wu, J. Y., Bergen, L., & Goodman, N. D. (2014). Nonliteral understanding of number words. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 12002—12007.

Yoon, E. J., Tessler, M. H., Goodman, N. D., & Frank, M. C. (in press). Polite speech emerges from competing social goals. Open Mind.

Yurovsky, D., Case, S., & Frank, M. C. (2017). Preschoolers flexibly adapt to linguistic input in a noisy channel. Psychological Science, 28, 132—140.

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