Two interpretive systems for natural language?

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.

Published in final edited form as: J Psycholinguist Res. 2015 Feb;44(1):7–25. doi: 10.1007/s10936-014-9328-0

a.	Ellipsis+that:	Speaker A:	What did Meg infer about school recitals?/
		Speaker B:	That/ she should go to school recitals/ whenever she can./
b.	Ellipsis-that:	Speaker A:	What did Meg infer about school recitals?
		Speaker B:	She should go to school recitals whenever she can.
c.	No ellips+that:	Speaker A:	What did Meg infer about school recitals?
		Speaker B:	She inferred that she should go to school recitals whenever she can.
d.	No ellips-that:	Speaker A:	What did Meg infer about school recitals?
		Speaker B:	She inferred she should go to school recitals whenever she can.