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Titel: Rational over-specification in visually-situated comprehension and production
VerfasserIn: Tourtouri, Elli N.
Delogu, Francesca
Sikos, Les
Crocker, Matthew W.
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
Bandnummer: 3
Heft: 2
Seiten: 175–202
Verlag/Plattform: Springer Nature
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Freie Schlagwörter: Maxim of quantity
Over-specification
Entropy reduction
Redundancy
Audience-design
Index of cognitive activity
DDC-Sachgruppe: 100 Philosophie
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Contrary to the Gricean maxims of quantity (Grice, in: Cole, Morgan (eds) Syntax and semantics: speech acts, vol III, pp 41–58, Academic Press, New York, 1975), it has been repeatedly shown that speakers often include redundant information in their utterances (over-specifications). Previous research on referential communication has long debated whether this redundancy is the result of speaker-internal or addressee-oriented processes, while it is also unclear whether referential redundancy hinders or facilitates comprehension. We present an information-theoretic explanation for the use of over-specification in visually-situated communication, which quantifies the amount of uncertainty regarding the referent as entropy (Shannon in Bell Syst Tech J 5:10, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x, 1948). Examining both the comprehension and production of over-specifications, we present evidence that (a) listeners’ processing is facilitated by the use of redundancy as well as by a greater reduction of uncertainty early on in the utterance, and (b) that at least for some speakers, listeners’ processing concerns influence their encoding of over-specifications: Speakers were more likely to use redundant adjectives when these adjectives reduced entropy to a higher degree than adjectives necessary for target identification.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1007/s41809-019-00032-6
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41809-019-00032-6
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-380322
hdl:20.500.11880/34367
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-38032
ISSN: 2520-1018
2520-100X
Datum des Eintrags: 16-Nov-2022
Fakultät: P - Philosophische Fakultät
Fachrichtung: P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Professur: P - Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker
Sammlung:SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes

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