{"pk":25696,"title":"Speaker-specific generalization of pragmatic inferences based on prenominal\nadjectives","subtitle":null,"abstract":"To navigate many-to-many mappings between referents and\nlinguistic expressions, listeners need to calibrate likelihood\nestimates for different referential expressions taking into\naccount both the context and speaker-specific variation.\nFocusing on speaker variation, we present three experiments.\nExperiment 1 establishes that listeners generalize speakerspecific\npatterns of pre-nominal modification use across\ndifferent adjective types. Experiment 2 examined a) the\ndimension of generalization (form-based or informativitybased);\nb) effects of the strength of the evidence (implicit or\nexplicit); and c) individual differences in dimensions of\ngeneralization. Experiment 3 asked parallel questions for\nexposure to over-specified utterances; we predicted more\nconservative generalizations because in spontaneous\nutterances, speakers are more likely to over-modify than\nunder-modify.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"sentence processing; adaptation; generalization;\npragmatics; informativity; referential expressions"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nt0m2z9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Amanda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pogue","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Chigusa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kurumada","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/25696/galley/15320/download/"}]}