Rational Redundancy in Referring Expressions: Evidence from Event-related Potentials
In referential communication, Grice's Maxim of Quantity is thought to imply that utterances conveying unnecessary information should incur comprehension difficulties. There is, however, considerable evidence that speakers frequently encode redundant information in their referring expressions, r...
Main Authors: | Crocker, M.W (Author), Delogu, F. (Author), Tourtouri, E.N (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
2021
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Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
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