Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs. (arXiv:2202.07023v1 [cs.CL])

During communication, the interpretation of utterances is sensitive to a
listener's probabilistic prior beliefs, something which is captured by one
currently influential model of pragmatics, the Rational Speech Act (RSA)
framework. In this paper we focus on cases when this sensitivity to priors
leads to counterintuitive predictions of the framework. Our domain of interest
is exhaustivity effects, whereby a sentence such as "Mary came" is understood
to mean that only Mary came. We show that in the baseline RSA model, …

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