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Evidentials in Causal Premise Semantics: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

Authors : Yurie Hara, Naho Orita, Hiromu Sakai

Published in: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We formalize the causal component of Davis & Hara’s (2014) analysis of Japanese evidentiality, which defines “indirect evidence” as an observation of the effect state of the cause-effect dependency. The analysis correctly predicts that uttering p-youda only commits the speaker to ‘if p, q must be true’ but not to the prejacent p, and successfully derives the asymmetry between the prejacent p and the evidence source q. Also, the results of the rating study and the corpus study show that the interpretation and the distribution of evidentials are subject to the cause-effect dependencies.

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Footnotes
1
A similar argument is made for reportative evidentials by Faller (2002); Murray (2010); AnderBois (2014).
 
2
The output for this paper was generated using Qualtrics software, Version 022018 of the Qualtrics Research Suite. 2017 Qualtrics. Qualtrics and all other Qualtrics product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of Qualtrics, Provo, UT, USA. http://​www.​qualtrics.​com.
 
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Metadata
Title
Evidentials in Causal Premise Semantics: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation
Authors
Yurie Hara
Naho Orita
Hiromu Sakai
Copyright Year
2018
Book
New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-93793-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-93794-6

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93794-6_20

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