Affiliation:
1. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts USA
Abstract
In this article, I defend an account of linguistic comprehension on which meaning is not cognized, or on which we do not tacitly know our language's semantics. On this view, sentence comprehension is explained instead by our capacity to translate sentences into the language of thought. I explain how this view can explain our capacity to correctly interpret novel utterances, and then I defend it against several standing objections.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Philosophy,Language and Linguistics
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