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    "pk": 50004,
    "title": "Irrational Speaker or Wonky World: Modeling Prior Revision and Prior Update",
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    "abstract": "Pragmatic accommodation is a key factor in maintaining\nsmooth real-life communication, yet it is largely overlooked in\npragmatic reasoning models such as the Rational Speech Act\n(RSA) model. The current study explores ways of extending\nthe basic RSA model: revising the listener's belief of common\nground, adjusting the listener's belief of speaker rationality,\nand doing both simultaneously. We evaluated model\npredictions for utterances varying in utility levels (i.e., how\nuseful an utterance is for state updating) and sentence\npolarities. We find that (i) contra prior findings, low utility does\nnot always trigger the expected extra inferences, but high utility\ndoes, (ii) higher utility is associated with higher speaker\nrationality, and (iii) our combined model predicts that lower\nspeaker rationality and lower wonkiness co-occur. Theoretical\nimplications of these findings are discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Cognitive architectures; Pragmatics; Reasoning; Computational Modeling"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pn150pf",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Muxuan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "He",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Elsi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kaiser",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}