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Pragmatic effects on reference resolution in a collaborative task: evidence from eye movements

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Pragmatic effects on reference resolution in a collaborative task: evidence from eye movements
In order to investigate whether addressees can make immediate use of speaker-based constraints during reference resolution, participant addressees' eye movements were monitored as they helped a confederate cook follow a recipe. Objects were located in the helper's area, which the cook could not reach, and the cook's area, which both could reach. Critical referring expressions matched one object (helper's area) or two objects (helper's and cook's areas), and were produced when the cook's hands were empty or full, which defined the cook's reaching ability constraints. Helper's first and total fixations showed that they restricted their domain of interpretation to their own objects when the cook's hands were empty, and widened it to include the cook's objects only when the cook's hands were full. These results demonstrate that addressees can quickly take into account task-relevant constraints to restrict their referential domain...
Joy E. Hanna, Michael K. Tanenhaus
Added 17 Dec 2010
Updated 17 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2004
Where COGSCI
Authors Joy E. Hanna, Michael K. Tanenhaus
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