Abstract / Description of output
Previous research has shown that interlocutors in a dialogue align their utterances at several levels of representation. This paper reports two experiments that use a confederate-priming paradigm to examine whether interlocutors also align their spatial representations during dialogue. Experiment 1 showed a significant reference frame priming effect: Speakers tended to use the same reference frame to locate an object in a scene as the frame that they had just heard their interlocutor use. Experiment 2 demonstrated the same pattern even when the speaker's description and their partner's previous description involved different prepositions. Hence the effect cannot be explained in terms of lexical priming of a particular preposition. Our results are strong evidence that interlocutors in a dialogue align non-linguistic as well as linguistic representations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Editors | K Forbus, D Gentner, T Regier |
| Place of Publication | Mahwah |
| Publisher | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |
| Pages | 1434-1439 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-8058-5464-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- CONVERSATION
- COORDINATION
- SPEAKERS