{"pk":25650,"title":"The perceptual foundation of linguistic context","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Context plays a ubiquitous role in language processing. For\nthe most part, work in language processing investigates the\neffects of context without investigating questions about what\ndetermines a context. For example, interpretation of any referential\nexpression must take into account the notion of a referential\ndomain. Here we investigate the influence of perceptual\ncues in establishing a referential domain, or linguistic context.\nWe demonstrate that people use perceptual cues to establish a\nlinguistic context; the influence of perceptual cues is gradient\nwith respect to cue magnitude; and the contribution of a perceptual\ncue in constructing a linguistic context is not an effect\nof attention or salience. We provide these results as a first step\ntoward developing a formal model for the establishment of linguistic\ncontext.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"language processing; reference resolution; linguistic\ncontext"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/464856tb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Francis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mollica","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"T","last_name":"Piantadosi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"K","last_name":"Tanenhaus","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25650/galley/15274/download/"}]}