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How do speakers coordinate? Evidence for prediction in a joint word-replacement task
Chiara Gambi1, Uschi Cop2, Martin J Pickering1
1Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Summary
Speakers anticipate their partner's actions in joint naming tasks. Even when the partner responds, speakers show a tendency to complete the initial name, suggesting predictive mechanisms are shared but not identical.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Human Communication
Background:
- Understanding how individuals coordinate speech in collaborative tasks is crucial.
- Joint naming paradigms reveal insights into shared representations and predictive processes in dialogue.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether speakers predict their conversational partners' actions during a joint picture naming task.
- To determine if speakers represent their partner's task and how this influences their own speech production.
Main Methods:
- A joint naming paradigm was employed with two participants taking turns naming pictures.
- Picture replacements (targets) signaled participants to stop naming the initial picture.
- Response conditions varied: same participant named target, other participant named target, or neither named target.
Main Results:
- Participants were more likely to complete the initial name when they or their partner had to name a subsequent target picture, compared to no target.
- This tendency to complete the initial name was stronger when the same participant named the target versus when the partner did.
- The results indicate a partial overlap in predictive mechanisms used for self-initiation and partner-initiated responses.
Conclusions:
- Speakers partially represent their partners' task during joint naming.
- Predictive mechanisms for speech production are shared but not fully identical between self and partner.
- This suggests sophisticated, yet constrained, predictive processing in collaborative speech.
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