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One alignment mechanism or many?

Arthur B Markman1, Kyungil Kim, Levi B Larkey

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Texas, 1 University Station, A8000, Austin, TX 78712 markman@psy.utexas.edu kyungil@mail.utexas.edu larkey@mail.utexas.edu grimmlr@mail.utexas.edu stilwell@psy.utexas.edu http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/FACULTY/Markman/index.html.

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|February 5, 2008
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Communicators synchronize processing across linguistic levels, but representations differ. Separate situation models are needed per participant, while other levels may use shared representations for effective communication synchronization.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Pickering & Garrod propose linguistic processing synchronization in communication.
  • Their theory implies cross-participant representation comparison.
  • This necessitates internal representations of all conversants.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the necessity of separate representations for each participant across linguistic levels.
  • To investigate the implications for synchronization mechanisms in dialogue.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of representational requirements in communication.
  • Examination of Pickering & Garrod's (20XX) model of dialogue processing.

Main Results:

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  • Maintaining separate situation models for each participant is crucial.
  • Separate representations are less critical at other linguistic processing levels.
  • Different synchronization mechanisms may operate at distinct linguistic levels.

Conclusions:

  • Communication synchronization involves distinct representational needs across linguistic levels.
  • The findings refine understanding of how interlocutors align during conversation.