Modeling Behavior in Truth Value Judgment Task Experiments
- Brandon Waldon (Stanford University)
- Judith Degen (Stanford University)
Abstract
Truth Value Judgment Task experiments (TVJTs) are a common means of investigating pragmatic competence, particularly with regards to scalar inference. We present a novel quantitative linking function from pragmatic competence to participant behavior on TVJTs, based upon a Bayesian probabilistic model of linguistic production. Our model captures a range of observed phenomena on TVJTs, including intermediate responses on a non-binary scale, population and individual-level variation, participant endorsement of false utterances, and variation in response due to so-called scalar diversity.
Keywords: pragmatics, scalar implicature, truth value judgment task
How to Cite:
Waldon, B. & Degen, J., (2020) “Modeling Behavior in Truth Value Judgment Task Experiments”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 3(1), 10-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/sg32-aq30
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