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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Communication Studies

Background:

  • Lexical alignment, the adoption of interlocutor's word choices, is central to communication.
  • Existing theories debate the role of addressee-centered behavior in lexical alignment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate factors modulating lexical alignment, specifically the role of addressee-centered behavior.
  • To test how external auditory information influences lexical alignment in a communicative task.

Main Methods:

  • A triadic communication setup involving two participants and a voice-over.
  • Participants played a picture-matching game, receiving instructions via headphones.
  • Critical trials presented a conflicting lexical item from the voice-over compared to the interlocutor's prior usage.

Main Results:

  • Participants predominantly adopted the lexical item provided by the voice-over, even when it contradicted their interlocutor's term.
  • Lexical alignment was significantly higher for ambiguous stimuli (tangram shapes) compared to unambiguous stimuli (line drawings).
  • Results indicated a substantial influence of non-addressee-centered behavior on lexical alignment.

Conclusions:

  • Lexical alignment is not solely driven by aligning with the immediate addressee.
  • External auditory cues can override alignment with a conversational partner.
  • The ambiguity of communicative stimuli influences the degree of lexical alignment observed.