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The cognitive foundations of natural language communication within the SLIM theory of language are called database semantics. This component of SUM models the transfer of information from the speaker to the hearer by representing the knowledge of speaker and hearer, respectively, in the form of databases. Natural language communication is successful if a certain database content, encoded by the speaker into natural language signs, is reconstructed analogously in the database of the hearer.
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Hausser, R. (2001). Database semantics. In: Foundations of Computational Linguistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04337-0_23
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