What is an auditory evidential?

Definition
	An auditory evidential is a nonvisual evidential that signals that the speaker's evidence for the truth of his statement is based on what he has heard.

Generic
	An auditory evidential is a kind of
	What is a nonvisual evidential?

Source
	Oswalt 1986 37

Concept module: auditory evidential
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