When conceptual pacts are broken: Partner-specific effects on the comprehension of referring expressions

By Charles A. Metzing, Susan E. Brennan. 2003

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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The Neural Integration of Speaker and Message (2008, background): “With a preceding sentence context that lasted, on average, 1.6 sec and varied between 0.5 and 3.4 sec, it seems safe to assume that, in most cases, our listeners had some idea already as to the plausible sex, age, and social stratum of the speaker before the critical word began.”
Speakers' eye gaze disambiguates referring expressions early during face-to-face conversation (2007, background): “…on the earliest moments of language processing (e.g., Brown-Schmidt et al., 2005; Chambers, Tanenhaus, & Magnuson, 2004; Hanna & Tanenhaus, 2004; Metzing & Brennan, 2004), and contribute to the increasing evidence for constraint-based models (e.g., MacDonald, 1994; Tanenhaus & Trueswell, 1995).”
Beyond common and privileged: Gradient representations of common ground in real-time language use (2012, background): “Might this effect simply be due to increased salience of recently mentioned referents? Undoubtedly, in some cases information in linguistic common ground is more salient than unmentioned information, and salience may, in fact, be one of the mechanisms that interlocutors use to keep track of informat”
Continual Adaptation for Efficient Machine Communication (2019, background): “Second, because the data is sparse, strong adaptation risks catastrophic forgetting; yet, human speakers are able to revert to their background expectations for the next interlocutor (Wilkes-Gibbs and Clark, 1992; Metzing and Brennan, 2003).”
The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions (2006, background): “The issue of audience-designed reference has become a matter of great debate in the adult language processing literature (e.g., Brown & Dell, 1987; Horton & Gerrig, 2005; Metzing & Brennan, 2003 ).”
Perceptual adjustments to multiple speakers (2007, unknown): “…processing suggests that listeners interpret the same referring expressions differently for different speakers, based on their experience with a particular speaker, and that this experience exerts an influence extremely early in processing (see Metzing & Brennan, 2003; Nadig & Sedivy, 2002).”
Attenuating Information in Spoken Communication: For the Speaker, or for the Addressee?. (2010, background): “Addressees appear to assume that speakers with whom they have established such precedents do not abandon them without reason (Matthews, Lieven, & Tomasello, 2008; Metzing & Brennan, 2003).”
Beyond salience: Interpretation of personal and demonstrative pronouns (2005, result): “This finding is consistent with a growing body of research demonstrating social, taskbased, and contextual influences on language understanding (Bangerter, 2004; Beun & Cremers, 1998; Chambers, Tanenhaus, Eberhard, Filip, & Carlson, 2002; Chambers, Tanenhaus, & Magnuson, 2004; Grodner & Sedivy, in p”
Talker-specific perceptual adaptation during online speech perception (2012, background): “Further, listeners can use information about the way in which a particular dialogue partner has referred to specific referents in a discourse context in order to guide interpretation of temporarily ambiguous referring expressions (Brennan & Hanna, 2009; Brown-Schmidt, 2009; Metzing & Brennan, 2003).”
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (2007, unknown): “Matthews, Lieven, and Tomasello (2010) adopted the paradigm used with adults by Metzing and Brennan (2003).”
Linguistic alignment between people and computers (2010, background): “…and moreover that they can override the normal convention that an initial expression that has been understood and acknowledged to be understood by an addressee will continue to be used by both interlocutors for the remainder of the interaction (Brennan and Clark, 1996; Metzing and Brennan, 2003).”
Conversational Common Ground and Memory Processes in Language Production (2005, background): “The third constraint is what we would generally recognize as the locus for effects of common ground (for a similar proposal, see Metzing & Brennan, 2003).”
Computational Generation of Referring Expressions: A Survey (2012, background): “Some psycholinguists have argued that referring is an interactive and collaborative process, with speaker and addressee forming a “conceptual pact” on how to refer to some object (Heeman and Hirst 1995 ; Brennan and Clark ( 1996 ); Metzing and Brennan 2003 ).”