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Titel: Rational Redundancy in Referring Expressions: Evidence from Event‐related Potentials
VerfasserIn: Tourtouri, Elli N.
Delogu, Francesca
Crocker, Matthew W.
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Cognitive Science
Bandnummer: 45
Heft: 12
Verlag/Plattform: Wiley
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Freie Schlagwörter: Bounded-rationality
Common ground
Entropy reduction
ERPs
Gricean maxims of Quantity
Overspecification
Referring expressions
DDC-Sachgruppe: 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: 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, raising the question as to whether such overspecifications hinder listeners’ processing. Evidence from previous work is inconclusive, and mostly comes from offline studies. In this article, we present two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, investigating the real-time comprehension of referring expressions that contain redundant adjectives in complex visual contexts. Our findings provide support for both Gricean and bounded-rational accounts. We argue that these seemingly incompatible results can be reconciled if common ground is taken into account. We propose a bounded-rational account of overspecification, according to which even redundant words can be beneficial to comprehension to the extent that they facilitate the reduction of listeners’ uncertainty regarding the target referent.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1111/cogs.13071
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-354602
hdl:20.500.11880/32381
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-35460
ISSN: 1551-6709
0364-0213
Datum des Eintrags: 9-Feb-2022
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Fakultät: P - Philosophische Fakultät
Fachrichtung: P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Professur: P - Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker
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