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Efficient adaptation to listener proficiency: The case of referring expressions
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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If speakers communicate efficiently, they should produce more linguistic material when comprehension difficulty increases. Comprehension difficulty can be impacted by the message itself (studied extensively) or by properties of the listener (studied less). Here we investigate the impact of listeners’ estimated proficiency on speakers’ productions, using referential choice as a case study. Compared to full noun phrases (fNPs, ‘the woman’), pronouns (‘she’) can convey similar content with less linguistic material: accordingly, speakers use more fNPs when the message is unpredictable (Tily & Piantadosi, 2009) and when listeners lack relevant information (Bard & Aylett, 2004). If referential choice is also impacted by listeners’ estimated proficiency, then speakers should use more fNPs when conversing with language learners. To test this, we compared participants' descriptions of the same picture book to learners and proficient speakers. Indeed, participants used more fNPs when their interlocutors were child- or adult-learners, illustrating efficient adaptation to listener type.
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URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66j9v4st
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What to talk about, and how: studies on prominence and patterns of coreference
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Anatomy of dialogue in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation
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Beyond words: non-linguistic signals and the recovery of meaning
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Lifelong interplay between language and cognition: from language learning to perspective-taking, new insights into the ageing mind
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Intersentential coreference expectations reflect mental models of events
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Contrastive prosody and the subsequent mention of alternatives during discourse processing
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Cues to Lying May be Deceptive: Speaker and Listener Behaviour in an Interactive Game of Deception
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Explicit Discourse Connectives / Implicit Discourse Relations
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2018)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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