Events 
| CRC Colloquium |
| Monday, 15/12/08 16:00 - 18:00 | |
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Susan E. Brennan State University of New York at Stony Brook Susan E. Brennans Home Page How Partner-Specific Adaptation Unfolds in Speech and Gesture There is considerable debate about how alignment and audience design emerge in dialogue. Some have argued that utterances are initially shaped by automatic “dumb” or “egocentric” processes that are impervious to partner-specific knowledge, and that any adaptation to partners’ distinct communicative needs emerges later, via an inferential repair process. But accumulating evidence suggests that partner-specific information can shape the production and interpretation of utterances from the early moments of processing. I will argue that priming is not an explanation for partner-specific adaptation in dialogue, but that such adaptation emerges from both “for-the-speaker” and “for-the-addressee” |
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