CRification

English

Etymology

CR +‎ -ification

Noun

CRification (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The generation of a clarification request.
    • 2011, Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner, Semantics, volume 1, page 861:
      Whereas, in a community endowed with a language that lacks CRification, as I refer to the interaction brought about by a CR, the emergent divergence among language users is so high that the language eventually dies out.
    • 2012, Jonathan Ginzburg, The Interactive Stance, page 147:
      The basic desideratum to which the data and previous work leads us is essentially this: a protocol in which an utterance event triggers either an update of the DGB if conditions enable grounding to occur, otherwise CRification takes place.
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