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    "pk": 29386,
    "title": "Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification",
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    "abstract": "Speakers often overspecify by using colour adjectives redun-dantly in referential communication. We investigated whetherthis tendency to overspecify is influenced by a partner’s lin-guistic behaviour, and whether the effect is enhanced by lex-ical repetition and semantic relatedness. We used a director-matcher task in which speakers interacted with either a consis-tently overspecific or a consistently optimal partner. Our re-sults show that partner behaviour influences overspecification.An analysis over time indicates that speakers tended to over-specify at the outset, but reduced this behaviour over interac-tion with an optimal partner much more than with an overspe-cific partner. This may suggest that overspecification (at leastwith colour modifiers) is the “default” behaviour, with speak-ers adapting to optimality in a partner’s linguistic behaviour.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "overspecification; partner alignment; referentialcommunication; pragmatics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Language and Groups",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pv876q5",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jia",
            "middle_name": "E.",
            "last_name": "Loy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kenny",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Smith",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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