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Planning and coordination of utterances in a joint naming task
Renske S Hoedemaker1, Antje S Meyer1
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Summary
Effective dialogue coordination occurs without full corepresentation of a partner's task. Speakers prioritize their own speech planning, demonstrating efficient collaboration in joint action tasks.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Science
- Human Communication
Background:
- Dialogue involves intricate coordination between speakers.
- The joint action model posits that coordination is achieved through corepresentation of each other's tasks.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the corepresentation account of dialogue as joint action.
- To examine whether speakers fully incorporate their partner's task into their own speech planning.
Main Methods:
- Two experiments using an interactive joint naming task.
- Participants took turns naming objects on a shared display.
- Recorded utterance timing and eye movements.
Main Results:
- Speakers effectively coordinated utterances, but speech planning was unaffected by the partner's task.
- Eye movements showed less attention to partner-named objects.
- Viewing times for partner's objects were insufficient for name retrieval.
Conclusions:
- Speakers prioritize their own response planning over attending to the interlocutor's task.
- Effective dialogue coordination can be achieved without complete corepresentation of the partner's task.
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