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Interface Transparency Thesis in Linguistics

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Interface Transparency Thesis in Linguistics

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What are the two basic concerns that a semantic theory for a natural language must traditionally address?

Pragmatics and phonology

Syntax and semantics

Morphology and syntax

Empirical adequacy and compositionality (correct)

What is a key aspect that competent speakers may understand differently than truth conditions in a semantic theory?

Individual word meanings (correct)

Syntax

Pragmatics

Semantics

Why is it challenging to specify a semantic theory for a natural language?

Because there are many truth-conditionally equivalent representations (correct)

Because truth conditions are not important

Because empirical evidence is not relevant

Due to lack of linguistic resources

Why do theorists suspect that distinct specifications of truth conditions can suggest different psychological hypotheses?

Because of the semantics-cognition interface Signup and view all the answers

What is one source of evidence that is focused on in the paper mentioned in the text?

Approximate number system Signup and view all the answers

Why is it important to appeal to additional sources of evidence when justifying specific proposals about sentence meanings?

To distinguish empirically testable psychological hypotheses Signup and view all the answers

What does the Interface Transparency Thesis propose about the relationship between linguistic meanings and cognitive systems?

Declarative sentences are associated with canonical procedures for determining truth. Signup and view all the answers

What kind of procedure is associated with a declarative sentence according to the Interface Transparency Thesis?

A canonical procedure for determining truth Signup and view all the answers

In the psycholinguistic experiment mentioned, when is the sentence 'Most of the dots are blue' considered true?

When more than half of the dots are blue. Signup and view all the answers

How is the second cardinality specified in understanding or verifying 'Most of the dots are blue' according to the text?

|{x: Dot(x)}| ) |{x: Dot(x) & Blue(x)}| Signup and view all the answers

What does the psycholinguistic evidence and psychophysical modeling support concerning 'Most of the dots are blue'?

The second hypothesis. Signup and view all the answers

'Most of the dots are blue' being true implies what relationship between blue and nonblue dots?

Majority of dots being blue. Signup and view all the answers