When more is more: redundant modifiers can facilitate visual search

When more is more: redundant modifiers can facilitate visual search

Abstract According to the Gricean Maxim of Quantity, speakers provide the amount of information listeners require to correctly interpret an utterance, and no more (Grice in Logic and conversation, 1975). However, speakers do tend to violate the Maxim of Quantity often, especially when the redundant...

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Main Authors: Gwendolyn Rehrig, Reese A. Cullimore, John M. Henderson, Fernanda Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-02-01
Series:Cognitive Research
Subjects:
Gricean maxims
Visual search
Overinformativity
Adjectives
Template guidance
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00275-4

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00275-4

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