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  • Listeners typically use shared knowledge to interpret utterances.
  • Previous research suggests rapid integration of speaker awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate listener integration of speaker perspective when private knowledge conflicts with shared knowledge.
  • Examine how listeners process referential ambiguity based on differing object identities.

Main Methods:

  • Eye-tracking measures to monitor real-time referential processing.
  • Experimental manipulation of shared versus private knowledge about object identity.
  • Analysis of listener's ability to integrate speaker's perspective.

Main Results:

  • Listeners rapidly integrate a speaker's awareness of an object's existence.
  • Listeners strongly consider their own private knowledge of object identity, even when it conflicts with the speaker's.
  • This effect persists even when discourse highlights the discrepancy in knowledge.

Conclusions:

  • Listeners do not always prioritize shared knowledge over private knowledge in real-time conversation.
  • Distinct types of perspective-based cues are integrated differently during communication.
  • Private knowledge plays a significant role in referential processing, challenging some existing models.