Expectations about upcoming content: The role of the addressee

Vilde Reksnes, Alice Rees, Chris Cummins, Hannah Rohde

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Abstract

Research on typicality shows seemingly contradictory patterns: comprehenders anticipate real-world typical content (Kamide et al. 2003) but this is less frequent in speakers' productions (Brown & Dell 1987). However, recent work shows evidence of comprehenders’ attention to speaker preferences, apparent in their anticipation and processing of non-typical content (e.g. Rohde et al. 2021, 2022). Additionally, the more the speaker's role as an intentional communicator is emphasised, the more comprehenders expect contributions about non-typical content, i.e., content that is cooperatively informative (Authors, submitted). Here, we show that this informativity expectation is modulated by whether the addressee is an adult or child.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event 10th Biennial Meeting of Experimental Pragmatics - Université Paris Cité, Amphitheatre Buffon, 15 Rue Hélène Brion, 75013 Paris, Paris, France
Duration: 20 Sept 202322 Sept 2023
https://xpragx.sciencesconf.org/

Conference

Conference 10th Biennial Meeting of Experimental Pragmatics
Abbreviated titleXPrag X
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period20/09/2322/09/23
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • anticipation
  • discourse processing
  • informativity

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