You said it before and you'll say it again: Expectations of consistency in communication

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 357-369

  Shintel, Hadas ^a   Keysar, Boaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Language comprehension; Lexical entrainment; Listener expectations; Mutual knowledge; Referring expressions; Verbal consistency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AWARENESS; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947543638     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.357     Document Type: Article

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