Table 5 Predictions about our model.
Prediction #1 | Falsification of prediction #1: |
|---|---|
Anticipation should shape our non-linguistic understanding of events. | Anticipation should not shape our non-linguistic understanding of events. |
Anticipation should also shape how we express this understanding in language implicitly (e.g. via sentence structures) and explicitly (e.g. via categories such as Discourse Markers). | Linguistic structures should lack implicit expressions (e.g. intonation patterns, context-sensitivity) of anticipation, or categories explicitly expressing anticipations (e.g. Discourse Markers). |
Prediction #2: | Falsification of prediction #2: |
Our language use can guide our ongoing actions and understanding of language in discourse (e.g. via speech acts). Categories explicitly expressing anticipations should match the anticipations that structures implicitly express, or discourse becomes uninterpretable. | Our language use cannot guide our ongoing actions and understanding of language in discourse (i.e. speech acts may not occur). |
Our language use can guide our ongoing actions and understanding of language in discourse (e.g. via speech acts). Categories explicitly expressing anticipations should match the anticipations that structures implicitly express, or discourse becomes uninterpretable. | Categories explicitly expressing anticipations should not match the anticipations that structures implicitly express. Discourse is interpretable irrespective of these mismatches. |
