{"pk":26335,"title":"The Pragmatics of Spatial Language","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How do people understand the pragmatics of spatial language?We propose a rational-speech act model for spatial reasoning,and apply it to the terms ‘in’ and ‘near’. We examine people’sfine-grain spatial reasoning in this domain by having them lo-cate where an event occurred, given an utterance. Our prag-matic listener model provides a quantitative and qualitative fitto people’s inferences.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Pragmatics"},{"word":"Implicature"},{"word":"Spatial Language"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wg913w8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tomer","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Ullman","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Yang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xu","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Noah","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Goodman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26335/galley/15971/download/"}]}