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.