To Name or to Describe: Shared Knowledge Affects Referential Form

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 290-305

  Heller, Daphna ^a   Gorman, Kristen S ^b   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Common ground; Language production; Names; Perspective taking; Referring expressions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LINGUISTICS; NOMENCLATURE; SPEECH;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JUDGMENT; NAMES; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84859707531     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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