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Causation and norms of proper functioning: Counterfactuals are (still) relevant ...
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Environmental influences on infants’ native vowel discrimination: The case of talker number in daily life ...
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Functionalism in the lexicon: Where is it, and how did it get there? ...
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Expectation and Locality Effects in German Verb-final Structures ...
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Quantum Anthropology: Man, Cultures, and Groups in a Quantum Perspective ...
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Shifting ground: A definite puzzle in article production ...
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Abstract:
Interlocutors are typically thought to create models of discourse that represent information that is shared between speaker and listener (i.e., common ground) and information that is available only to the speaker (i.e., privileged ground). In this study, we investigated the conditions under which speakers update these discourse models to accommodate new interlocutors. To do so, we investigated the production of a linguistic distinction which is conditioned on common ground information and is ubiquitous in everyday speech – namely, the distinction between definite articles (e.g., the) and indefinite articles (e.g., a). In Experiment 1, we asked subjects to describe a set of events they witnessed to either (1) an experimenter who was present during the events, or (2) a second person who was not present during the events and thus did not share common ground with the subject. We found that a surprisingly high number of subjects used the definite article to refer to objects in privileged ground when addressing ...
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FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics; Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nb2h6 https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/nb2h6
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