Sentence examples for speakers behaviour from inspiring English sources

Indeed, we can speak of the Davidsonian account of interpretation as providing a quite general account of how mental content is determined (such content being understood as the content of propositional mental states such as belief): through the causal relation between speakers and objects in the world and through the rational integration of speakers' behaviour.

For better recognized speakers, the behaviour was much more predictable: ACC increased by approximately 20% (e.g. 40.19% increased to 58.52%, and 59.85% increased to 73.14%).

In such cases of "radical translation", different translators, working independently on Jungle, could thus produce quite divergent manuals of translation, each compatible with the totality of the native-speakers' verbal behaviour, but incompatible with one another.

According to this model, the grammar and vocabulary of a certain language determines its speakers' cognition and behaviour.

A direct consequence of this holistic approach is that there will always be more than one theory of interpretation that will be adequate to any particular body of evidence since theories may differ in particular attributions of belief or assignments of meaning while nevertheless providing an equally satisfactory account of the speaker's overall behaviour.

Such concepts refer us to overall patterns in the behaviour of speakers rather than to discrete, entities to which interpretation must somehow gain access.

Satisfaction of the requirement that a theory of meaning be adequate as an empirical theory, and so that it be adequate to the actual behaviour of speakers, will also ensure tighter constraints (if such are needed) on the formation of T-sentences.

JZ observed the group interviews, asked additional questions and, assisted by a minutes' secretary during the last three interviews, took notes on the order of speakers and relevant nonverbal behaviour.

Through balancing attributions of belief against assignments of meaning, we are able to move towards an overall theory of behaviour for a speaker or speakers that combines both a theory of meaning and of belief within a single theory of interpretation.

The weekly session overran by seven minutes after repeated interruptions from the Speaker about the rowdy behaviour in the House.

This method is based on the estimation of parameters characterising the behaviour of electrodynamic speakers, called Thiele Small parameters, which is state of the art for designing loudspeakers.