{"pk":27404,"title":"Specificity and entropy reduction in situated referential processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In situated communication, reference to an entity in theshared visual context can be established using either anexpression that conveys precise (minimally specified) orredundant (over-specified) information. There is, however, along-lasting debate in psycholinguistics concerning whetherthe latter hinders referential processing. We present evidencefrom an eye tracking experiment recording fixations as wellas the Index of Cognitive Activity – a novel measure ofcognitive workload – supporting the view that over-specifications facilitate processing. We further presentoriginal evidence that, above and beyond the effect ofspecificity, referring expressions that uniformly reducereferential entropy also benefit processing.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"referential processing; over-specification; visualentropy reduction; eye tracking; Index of Cognitive Activity"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9207b68g","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Elli","middle_name":"N.","last_name":"Tourtouri","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saarland University","department":""},{"first_name":"Francesca","middle_name":"","last_name":"Delogu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saarland University","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Crocker","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saarland University","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/27404/galley/17040/download/"}]}