This is in effect a way to formalize the idea of truth-tables, but applied beyond truth-functions of sentences to more complex functors with arguments of first and higher order truth-functions.
Further results revealed that (a) superimposing the prosodic structure of one dialect (Bern Swiss German) onto another (Valais Swiss German) caused greater variability across some listeners than the other way around and that (b) identification performance varies as a function of sentence material used, i.e. how the sentences differ in segmental and prosodic make-up.
It is the function of sentence 5, It is hard to mesh all this, which is the primary focus of the discussion which follows it.
An osmotic process goes to work when you read: it's called 'learning.' The more you read, the more you learn, and not just about what the girl with dragon tattoo did after she kicked the hornet's nest (spoiler: she defecated in the oatmeal), but about the function of sentence structure and rhythm and all that egg-headed horse shit.
Inasmuch as it is the distinctive function of protocol sentences to report one's evidence, a view about what sorts of contents a protocol sentence might have is in effect a view about what sorts of things can count as evidence.
Throughout, the semantic function of the sentences concerned is given in terms of the states of affairs asserted to obtain in simple assertoric contexts.
To see the problem, let L be the function from each sentence of English to its intuitive truth condition, and let L* be the restriction of that function to sentences that aren't very long.
We have a phrase: 'Walking while trans.' It's a function of our sentencing laws that we put people away for a long time for nonviolent offenses".
And Alfred Corn, in "The Bridge, Palm Sunday, 1973," gave the structures themselves the look and function of a sentence.
