The influence of partner-specific memory associations on language production: Evidence from picture naming

Horton, William S.

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“…Notably, even silence in some circumstances can count as agreement. A similar account of coordination in conver sation relies on implicit memory traces to explain how speakers track information about listeners and listeners' knowledge (Horton, 2007). In this study, too, an explicit representation of what the listener knows was unneces sary, and participants in this study were able to tailor their conversational contributions based on implicit knowledge about their listeners.…”

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Articulatory and lexical repetition effects on durational reduction: speaker experience vs. common ground

Kahn

Arnold

2013

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Speakers tend to reduce the duration of words that they have heard or spoken recently. We examine the cognitive mechanisms behind duration variation, focusing on the contributions of speaker-internal constraints and audience design. In three experiments, we asked speakers to give instructions to listeners about how to move objects. In Experiment 1, the instruction was preceded by an auditory prime, which elicited reduced spoken word duration on a target noun in a speakerprivilege condition, and additional reduction on a determiner in a mutual-knowledge condition. In Experiments 2a and 2b, we tested the related hypothesis that the speaker's experience articulating the target leads to fluent processing above and beyond fluency in other processing, such as lexical selection. While prior articulation of the target led to greater reduction than just thinking about the word (Experiment 2a), saying the prime led to equal reduction as hearing the prime (Experiment 2b). The pattern of results leads to the conclusion that facilitated processing, perhaps brought on primarily as a function of having heard a word, is a major contributor to durational reduction in running speech. While audience design also has a small effect, its effect may also be mediated by processing fluency.

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Section: Audience Design Effects On Acoustic Reductionmentioning

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Articulatory and lexical repetition effects on durational reduction: speaker experience vs. common ground

Kahn

Arnold

2013

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…Indeed, the presence of another person serves as a retrieval cue for words that have been uttered by that person and facilitates picture naming (Horton, 2007). So it was important to investigate whether Hartsuiker et al's (2008) results would be replicated in the presence of another person.…”

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How do speakers coordinate? Evidence for prediction in a joint word-replacement task

Gambi

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Pickering

2015

Cortex

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We investigated whether speakers represent their partners' task in a joint naming paradigm. Two participants took turns in naming pictures; occasionally the (initial) picture was replaced by a different picture (target), signalling that they had to stop naming the initial picture. When the same participant had to name the target picture, he or she completed the name of the initial picture more often than when neither participant had to name the target picture. Crucially, when the other participant had to name the target picture, the first participant also completed the name of the initial picture more often than when neither participant named the target picture. However, the tendency to complete the initial name was weaker when the other participant had to name the target than when the same participant went on to name the target. We argue that speakers predict that their partner is about to respond using some, but not all, of the mechanisms they use when they prepare to speak.

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“…Because these findings suggest that perceptual adaptation is speaker specific, they point to implicit learning mechanisms (possibly involving speaker-specific memory associations, cf. Horton, 2007), rather than to short-term boosts in transient activation (cf. Pickering & Garrod, 2004).…”

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Evidence for Implicit Learning in Syntactic Comprehension

2013

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This study provides evidence for implicit learning in syntactic comprehension. By reanalyzing data from a syntactic priming experiment (Thothathiri & Snedeker, 2008), we find that the error signal associated with a syntactic prime influences comprehenders' subsequent syntactic expectations. This follows directly from error-based implicit learning accounts of syntactic priming, but it is unexpected under accounts that consider syntactic priming a consequence of temporary increases in base-level activation. More generally, the results raise questions about the principles underlying the maintenance of implicit statistical knowledge relevant to language processing, and about possible functional motivations for syntactic priming.

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The influence of partner-specific memory associations on language production: Evidence from picture naming

Cited by 56 publications

References 49 publications

Articulatory and lexical repetition effects on durational reduction: speaker experience vs. common ground

Articulatory and lexical repetition effects on durational reduction: speaker experience vs. common ground

How do speakers coordinate? Evidence for prediction in a joint word-replacement task

Evidence for Implicit Learning in Syntactic Comprehension

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