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CRification
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English
Etymology
From en CR ification.
Noun
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en linguistics The generation of a clarification request.
en 2011 Claudia Maienborn; Klaus von Heusinger; Paul Portner Semantics 1 861 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.
en 2012 Jonathan Ginzburg The Interactive Stance 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.