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    "pk": 28037,
    "title": "Pragmatic Inference of Intended Referents from Binomial Word Order",
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    "abstract": "How does listeners’ perceptual bias influence their interpreta-tion of an ambiguous multiword utterance? We address thisquestion by investigating the relationship between word or-der in a binomial (an expression of type “A and B”) and vi-sual properties of image pairs serving as its potential referents.We found that listeners’ choices were strongly influenced byiconicity and relative salience of images within the pair: par-ticipants preferred referents where the first mentioned imagewas located on the left, as well as pairs where the first im-age was larger than the second image. The effect of image or-der tended to be stronger than the influence of image size, andboth were modulated by participants’ general visual field pref-erences (determined in a separate experimental condition). Wefurther show that binomial phrase interpretation can be simu-lated by a Rational Speech Act model that includes both wordorder effects and utterance-independent preferences of the par-ticipants.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "pragmatics; binomials; reference resolution; ob-ject salience; Rational Speech Act theory"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/11n6w5tx",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Anna",
            "middle_name": "A",
            "last_name": "Ivanova",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Roger",
            "middle_name": "P",
            "last_name": "Levy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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