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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Referent accessibility in narrative discourse is dynamic, not static.
  • Speakers adapt referential expressions based on character prominence and discourse context.
  • Understanding these adjustments is key to comprehending natural language production.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how speakers modify referential choices in a collaborative storytelling task.
  • To examine the impact of discourse stages (introduction, maintaining, shift) on referential strategies.
  • To assess the influence of referential complexity (number of characters, gender ambiguity) on these choices.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a novel collaborative storytelling in sequence task.
  • Manipulated referential complexity by varying character number (1 vs. 2) and gender ambiguity (same vs. different).
  • Coded data for reference marker types and reference content (information specificity).

Main Results:

  • Confirmed expected effects of discourse stages on reference markers (indefinite, pronouns, definite).
  • Found that character number influenced pronoun and definite marker use during the maintaining stage.
  • Observed that gender ambiguity affected reference content specificity during the shift stage.

Conclusions:

  • Speaker referential behavior is flexible, adapting to both discourse stage and referential complexity.
  • Reference content, often overlooked, plays a significant role in nuanced referential marking.
  • Findings contribute to models of language production and the dynamic nature of reference in discourse.