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contrastive inference: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

listeners' immediate inference that a prenominal modifier signals a contrasting referent in view, which speeds identification of the intended object.

In psycholinguistics, contrastive inference refers to listeners' immediate inference that a prenominal modifier signals a contrasting referent in view, which speeds identification of the intended object. This meaning comes from Sedivy (1999) in Cognition.[1]

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cognition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs identification6 fields · 9 citationsjingle · one word, six constructs inference3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Sedivy, J. C., K. Tanenhaus, M., Chambers, C. G., & Carlson, G. N. (1999). Achieving incremental semantic interpretation through contextual representation. Cognition, 71(2), 109-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00025-6

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