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Priming and alignment: Mechanism or consequence?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Sarah Brown-Schmidt*
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, River Campus, Rochester, NY14627http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/sschmidt/http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/mtan/mtan.html
Michael K. Tanenhaus*
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, River Campus, Rochester, NY14627http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/sschmidt/http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/mtan/mtan.html

Abstract

We agree with Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) proposal that dialogue is an important empirical and theoretical test bed for models of language processing. However, we offer two cautionary notes. First, the enterprise will require explicit computational models. Second, such models will need to incorporate both joint and separate speaker and hearer commitments in ways that go beyond priming and alignment.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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1. We use the word “thee” to indicate a disfluent pronunciation of the word “the” (and not in the old English usage as a pronoun).