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Production-comprehension asymmetries.

Fernanda Ferreira¹

¹Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 fernanda@eyelab.msu.edu http://eyelab.msu.edu/people/ferreira/fernanda.html.

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences

|February 5, 2008

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Pickering and Garrod's dialogue theory faces challenges due to differing production and comprehension grammars. Research indicates speakers produce structures listeners find ungrammatical, necessitating a relaxed assumption of representational parity in psycholinguistics.

Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Science
Computational Linguistics

Background:

Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) mechanistic theory offers a significant framework for understanding dialogue.
A core tenet of this theory is representational parity between language production and comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

To critically evaluate the assumption of representational parity in P&G's dialogue theory.
To investigate the implications of differing grammars in language production and comprehension for dialogue models.

Main Methods:

Review of recent psycholinguistic research on language production and comprehension.
Analysis of empirical findings concerning grammatical structures in dialogue.

Main Results:

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Empirical evidence suggests speakers often generate linguistic structures that are perceived as ungrammatical by listeners.
Listeners experience difficulties comprehending structures produced by speakers, indicating a potential mismatch.

Conclusions:

The assumption of representational parity in dialogue models, as proposed by P&G, may be overly simplistic.
Relaxing the strict assumption of representational parity is necessary to account for observed production-comprehension asymmetries in psycholinguistics.