Overspecification facilitates object identification

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 361-374

  Arts, Anja ^a   Maes, Alfons ^a   Noordman, Leo ^a   Jansen, Carel ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exophoric referential expressions; Language comprehension; Maxim of quantity; Overspecification; Perceptual mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049472044     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.07.013     Document Type: Article

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