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Fillmore, Charles J. 1979. Innocence: A second idealization for linguistics. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 5 : 63–76.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

F. shows that certain theories of semantics are theories of the language-understanding abilities of the innocent speaker/hearer (which is a second idealization in addition to Chomsky's ideal speaker-hearer).