{"pk":26230,"title":"Referential choice in identification and route directions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Though communicative goals are an important element in lan-guage production, few studies investigate the extent to whichthese goals might affect the form and content of referring ex-pressions. In this study, we directly contrast two tasks withdifferent goals: identification and instruction giving. Speak-ers had to refer to a target building nearby or further away, sothat their addressee would distinguish it between other build-ings (identification) or give route directions and use the samebuilding as a landmark (instructions). Our results showed thatirrespective of goals, the referring expressions consisted of thesame types of attributes, yet the attribute frequency and for-mulation differed. In the identification task, references werelonger, contained more locative and more post-nominal mod-ifiers. In addition, referential choices were influenced by thevisual distance between the speaker and the target: when thespeaker observed the target from far, references were longerand contained more often locative modifiers.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"communicative goals; identification task; route di-rections; referring expressions"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17s0067t","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Adriana","middle_name":"","last_name":"Baltaretu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Emiel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Krahmer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Alfons","middle_name":"","last_name":"Maes","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26230/galley/15866/download/"}]}