{"pk":27339,"title":"Information theoretic factors in marking linguistic focus:A laboratory-language approach","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We present an experimental study investigating the role ofinformation-theoretic factors in determining patterns of redun-dancy and focus in language and other communication sys-tems. Pairs of participants played a simple communicationgame using a non-linguistic visual medium to send messagesto each other. We manipulated noise, effort, and time pres-sures and measured message length, redundancy, and accuracy.Participants behaved as predicted based on an information-theoretic model, with message length and redundancy varyingaccording to circumstance, but accuracy remaining constant.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"communication; focus; information theory; lan-guage; redundancy; signaling game"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fg6s0gz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gareth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Roberts","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""},{"first_name":"Jon","middle_name":"Scott","last_name":"Stevens","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27339/galley/16975/download/"}]}