Language has a rich typology of inferential types. It was recently shown that subjects are able to divide the informational content of new visual stimuli among the various slots of the inferential typology: when gestures or visual animations are used in lieu of specific words in a sentence, they can trigger the very same inferential types as language alone (Tieu et al., 2019). How general are the relevant triggering algorithms? We show that they extend to the auditory modality and to music cognition. We tested whether pro-speech musical gestures, i.e. musical excerpts that replace words in sentences, can give rise to the same inferences. We show that it is possible to replicate the same typology of inferences using pro-speech music. Minimal and complex musical excerpts can behave just like language, gestures, and visual animations with respect to the logical behavior of their content when embedded in sentences. Specifically, we found that pro-speech music can generate scalar implicatures, presuppositions, supplements, and homogeneity inferences.

语言具有丰富的推理类型。最近的研究表明，受试者能够将新视觉刺激的信息内容划分到推理类型的各个槽位中：当使用手势或视觉动画代替句子中的特定单词时，它们可以触发完全相同的推理类型作为单独的语言（Tieu et al., 2019）。相关触发算法的通用性如何？我们证明它们延伸到听觉形态和音乐认知。我们测试了支持语音的音乐手势，即替换句子中单词的音乐摘录，是否可以产生相同的推论。我们证明可以使用支持语音的音乐来复制相同类型的推理。当嵌入句子中时，最小和复杂的音乐摘录在其内容的逻辑行为方面可以像语言、手势和视觉动画一样表现。具体来说，我们发现支持语音的音乐可以产生标量含义、预设、补充和同质性推论。