Speakers Align With Their Partner's Overspecification During Interaction

Speakers often overspecify by encoding more information than is necessary when referring to an object (e.g., “the blue mug” for the only mug in a group of objects). We investigated the role of a partner's linguistic behavior (whether or not they overspecify) on a speaker's own tendency to...

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Main Authors: Loy, J.E (Author), Smith, K. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc 2021
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