ABSTRACT
Defaults in Utterance Interpretation In the process of linguistic communication, not all of the intended meanings are uttered; some are assumed to go through unsaid. Among such pieces of information, there are salient, presumed, standard or default meanings that the addressee arrives at without the help of a conscious inferential process. For example, (1) and (2) normally communicate (1’) and (2’), unless the context signals that this standard interpretation was not intended.
