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December 9, 2025Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOpen Access

Three distinct components of pragmatic language use: Social conventions, intonation, and world knowledge–based causal reasoning

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SFSammy FloydOJOlessia JouravlevMPMoshe Poliak

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Overview

Experiment reveals three components of pragmatic language use, indicating distinct processes for understanding intonation and causal reasoning.

Key Points

  • This research aims to identify distinct cognitive components involved in pragmatic language use.
  • Examined covariation in performance on nonliteral comprehension tasks across two large samples.
  • Participants completed a battery of 20 critical tasks over 8 hours in Experiment 1.
  • Utilized exploratory factor analysis to uncover structure in performance data.
  • Identified three cognitive clusters: social conventions, intonation, and causal reasoning.
  • The structure replicated in a second sample, confirming the robustness of the findings.
  • Findings have implications for understanding pragmatic difficulties in individuals with brain disorders.

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Floyd et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401efa2d562116f28f99fahttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2424400122
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