Pragmatic expectations and linguistic evidence: Listeners anticipate but do not integrate common ground

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-40

  Barr, Dale J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Common ground; Eyetracking; Pragmatics; Reference

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 54249157350     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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