{"pk":27295,"title":"Interactive Communicative Inference","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In the search for an understanding of human communication,researchers often try to isolate listener and speaker roles andstudy them separately. Others claim that it is the intertwined-ness of these roles that makes human communication special.This close relationship between listener and speaker has beencharacterized by concepts such as common ground, backchan-neling, and alignment, but they are only part of the picture. Un-derlying these processes, there must be a mechanism for mak-ing inferences about our interlocutors’ understanding of wordsand gestures that allows us to communicate robustly and effi-ciently without assuming that we take the same words to havethe same meaning. In this paper, I explore this relationship be-tween language and concepts and propose an interactive mech-anism that can facilitate these latent conceptual inferences. Fi-nally, I show how this proposal paves the way for a more pre-cise account of the role of interaction in communication.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Communication; Coordination; Interaction; Prag-matics; Bayes; Cognitive Linguistics; Inference; Discourse"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38f3w54b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Larry","middle_name":"","last_name":"Muhlstein","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California San Diego","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27295/galley/16931/download/"}]}