Something old, something new: addressee knowledge and the given-new contract

Holly P. Branigan; Janet F. McLean; Hannah Reeve

Something old, something new: addressee knowledge and the given-new contract

Holly P. Branigan, Janet F. McLean, Hannah Reeve

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Abstract

Although speakers in a dialogue are known to design utterances cooperatively with respect to meaning, less is known about audience design with respect to syntax. We report two picture verification experiments that investigated the production of Given-New ordering when speakers' and addressees' knowledge differed. In both experiments, speakers produced word orders that reflected their own but not their addressees' knowledge states. We suggest that speakers do not engage in audience design for aspects of their utterances which they do not consider to be necessary for adequate communication.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July 31 - August 2 2003, Boston, Massachusetts
Editors	Richard Alterman, David Kirsh
Place of Publication	Mahwah, NJ
Publisher	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Pages	180-185
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	0805849912
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, United States Duration: 30 Jul 2003 → 1 Aug 2003 Conference number: 25

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Conference	25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Abbreviated title	CogSci 2003
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	30/07/03 → 1/08/03

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Branigan, H. P., McLean, J. F., & Reeve, H. (2003). Something old, something new: addressee knowledge and the given-new contract. In R. Alterman, & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July 31 - August 2 2003, Boston, Massachusetts (pp. 180-185). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2003/pdfs/54.pdf

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Branigan, HP, McLean, JF & Reeve, H 2003, Something old, something new: addressee knowledge and the given-new contract. in R Alterman & D Kirsh (eds), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July 31 - August 2 2003, Boston, Massachusetts. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 180-185, 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, United States, 30/07/03. <http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2003/pdfs/54.pdf>

Something old, something new : addressee knowledge and the given-new contract. / Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet F.; Reeve, Hannah.

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July 31 - August 2 2003, Boston, Massachusetts. ed. / Richard Alterman; David Kirsh. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. p. 180-185.

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