Sentence examples for a default interpretation from inspiring English sources

However, in order to limit the number of transitions excluded in this manner, Safecharts provides a default interpretation for relative risk levels between states not covered by the risk ordering relation, requiring the designer to clarify the risk levels in the event of a disagreement and thus improving the risk assessment process.

Automatic and unconscious enrichment produces a default interpretation of the utterance and "[o]nly when there is something wrong does the hearer suspend or inhibit the automatic transition which characterizes the normal cases of linguistic communication".

But I'll step out on the proverbial limb and toss a few hypotheses into the ring... Joaquin the Publicity Stuntman: The "publicity" hypothesis is an obvious cynical default interpretation that has been un-creatively over-massaged by both media and the general public alike.

In addition to this general or default interpretation, a pragmatically-inducted interpretation in which the AP or VP of the resultative de-part is semantically predicated of the matrix subject is sometimes allowed as well.

To begin with a common-sense definition, default interpretation of the speaker's utterance is normally understood to mean salient meaning intended by the speaker, or presumed by the addressee to have been intended, and recovered (a) without the help of inference from the speaker's intentions or (b) without conscious inferential process altogether.

This interpretation results from the systematic default interpretation of a resultative de-part with an overt NP.

Notice that the default interpretation of a term is its proper sense, defined as "the signification properly and principally given to it".

It is not a long step to the supposition that the default interpretation of the null element is to treat it as the definite determiner 'the'the

The main difference is that they don't seem to be defeasible: OT pragmatics tells us how an actual interpretation arose, rather than what the default interpretation could be.

Such an analog representation may be missing in students' default interpretation of the word "distribution" (see Singer, Radinsky, & Goldman 2008 for another case of gesture illustrating words through imagery).

What is important in this view is the proposed distinction between (conscious) inference and the unconscious act of 'taking a step', as Bach (1984: 40) calls it, towards the enriched, default interpretation.