Influence of perspective and goals on reference production in conversation.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Si On YoonSarah Brown-Schmidt

Abstract

We examined the extent to which speakers take into consideration the addressee's perspective in language production. Previous research on this process had revealed clear deficits (Horton & Keysar, Cognition 59:91-117, 1996; Wardlow Lane & Ferreira, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 34:1466-1481, 2008). Here, we evaluated a new hypothesis--that the relevance of the addressee's perspective depends on the speaker's goals. In two experiments, Korean speakers described a target object in situations in which the perspective status of a competitor object (e.g., a large plate when describing a smaller plate) was manipulated. In Experiment 1, we examined whether speakers would use scalar-modified expressions even when the competitor was hidden from the addressee. The results demonstrated that information from both the speaker's and the addressee's perspectives influenced production. In Experiment 2, we examined whether utterance goals modulate this process. The results indicated that when a speaker makes a request, the addressee's perspective has a stronger influence than it does when the speaker informs the addressee. These results suggest that privileged knowledge does shape language use, but cruciall...Continue Reading

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Apr 22, 2015·Cognition·Caitlin HilliardSusan Wagner Cook
May 3, 2016·Language, Cognition and Neuroscience·Gina R Kuperberg, T Florian Jaeger
Jun 25, 2013·The Behavioral and Brain Sciences·Si On Yoon, Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Nov 1, 2016·Topics in Cognitive Science·Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Melissa C Duff
Feb 2, 2018·Cognitive Science·Mindaugas MozuraitisDaphna Heller
Aug 26, 2019·Cognitive Science·Si On Yoon, Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Jan 1, 2018·Discourse Processes·Andrés Buxó-LugoDuane G Watson
Nov 28, 2019·Psychological Research·Anna M Borghi, Lawrence Barsalou
Dec 21, 2019·Cognitive Science·Si On Yoon, Sarah Brown-Schmidt
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Oct 18, 2019·Cognitive Science·Myrto Grigoroglou, Anna Papafragou
Sep 29, 2020·Trends in Cognitive Sciences·Dora Kampis, Victoria Southgate
Jan 26, 2021·Frontiers in Psychology·Si On YoonCynthia L Fisher
Jun 15, 2021·Frontiers in Psychology·Frances YungVera Demberg

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