An early influence of common ground during speech planning. Issue 6 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vanlangendonck, Flora; Willems, Roel M.; Menenti, Laura; Hagoort, Peter
• Is Part Of: Language, cognition and neuroscience. Volume 31:Issue 6(2016)
• Page Start: 741
• Page End: 750
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Language production -- eye-tracking -- common ground -- audience design -- recipient design; Psycholinguistics -- Periodicals; Linguistics -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Psycholinguïstiek; Cognitieve processen; Linguistics; Neurosciences; Psycholinguistics; Periodicals; 401.9
• DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1148747
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2327-3798

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In order to communicate successfully, speakers have to take into account which information they share with their addressee, i.e. common ground. In the current experiment we investigated how and when common ground affects speech planning by tracking speakers' eye movements while they played a referential communication game. We found evidence that common ground exerts an early, but incomplete effect on speech planning. In addition, we did not find longer planning times when speakers had to take common ground into account, suggesting that taking common ground into account is not necessarily an effortful process. Common ground information thus appears to act as a partial constraint on language production that is integrated flexibly and efficiently in the speech planning process.