Speakers’ experiences and audience design: knowing when and knowing how to adjust utterances to addressees☆

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Conversational Common Ground and Memory Processes in Language Production (2005, background): “Therefore, an informal answer to these questions might be “Speakers make reference to common ground to design their utterances for particular addressees.” However, the exact extent to which speakers adjust their utterances by virtue of what they believe is mutually known has been controversial in ps”
Attenuating Information in Spoken Communication: For the Speaker, or for the Addressee?. (2010, background): “To the extent that audience design depends on information about an addressee's needs, it cannot emerge unless that information is activated early enough to be used in utterance planning or interpretation (Horton & Gerrig, 2002; Kraljic & Brennan, 2005).”
The effects of common ground and perspective on domains of referential interpretation (2003, background): “…has focused on written and spoken language production, with methodologies that only allow coarse-grained temporal analyses (e.g., Bard et al., 2000; Brown & Dell, 1987; Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs, 1986; Garrod & Anderson, 1987; Horton & Gerrig, 2002; Lockridge & Brennan, 2002; Schober & Brennan, 2001).”
The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions (2006, background): “There is evidence that adults learn in this manner and better adjust descriptions of referents as they gain feedback from their addressee ( Horton & Gerrig, 2002 ).”