Ordering adjectives in referential communication
| Autor: | Kumiko Fukumura |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Linguistics and Language
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Referent 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Artificial Intelligence Selection (linguistics) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences priming dialogue referential communication Language production 05 social sciences Contrast (statistics) word order adjective Identification (information) Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Psychology Adjective Priming (psychology) 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Word order Cognitive psychology language production |
| ISSN: | 0749-596X |
| Popis: | We contrasted two hypotheses concerning how speakers determine adjective order during referential communication. The discriminatory efficiency hypotheses claims that speakers place the most discriminating adjective early to facilitate referent identification. By contrast, the availability-based ordering hypothesis assumes that speakers produce most available adjectives early to ease production. Experiment 1 showed that speakers use more pattern-before-color modifier orders (than the reversed) when pattern, not color, distinguished the referent from alternatives, providing support for the discriminatory efficiency hypothesis. Participants also overspecified color more often than pattern, and they generally favored color-before-pattern orders, in support of the availability-based ordering hypothesis. Experiments 2 and 3 replicated both effects in a dialogue setting, where speakers’ adjective ordering was also primed by their partner’s ordering, using conjoined and non-conjoined constructions. We propose a novel model ( PASS ) that explains how discriminability and availability simultaneously influence adjective selection and ordering via competition in the speaker’s message representation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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