Producing Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases: Do Speakers Use the Addressee's Discourse Model?

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1289-1311

  Fukumura, Kumiko ^a   Van Gompel, Roger P G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Audience design; Common ground; Definite noun phrase; Discourse; Language production; Pronoun; Reference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84865851321     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01255.x     Document Type: Article

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