dialogue production

Question 1

Conceptualization

Answer 1

high order level the way we represent the situation we are in
Garrod and anderson: Maze task: one sees panel a and the other panel b
Had to navigate through the maze. Can get partner to open gates can’t open your own. Have to find way of explaining where you are
Start to converge with partner about the way they talk about the maze
Path type
Co-ordinate description
Line-type description
Figural description

Same maze task but manipulated relationships
Speakers change partners regularly: but from same group of people
Speakers change partners regularly but were not from the same group
Speakers played the game repeatedly with the same partner
From same community: strongest conversion. By game 5 everyone used the same scheme.
Not same community: never really settle on one particular scheme
Isolated pairs: a real mix. Different pairs different conversions

Question 2

word repetition

Answer 2

Clark: lexical entrainment: beginning to use same words as partner
Ppts were either speakers or listeners: the way ppl converged on terminology used to describe pictures

Question 3

structure repetition

Answer 3

branigan:
Confederate: the nun is showing the banana to the monk
Ppt: the artist is selling the ballerina to the gun
Ppts usually not aware of doing this

Question 4

audience design

Answer 4

1. Clark: New York study (native new yorkers and out of towners)
   New Yorkers modified descriptions accordingly when they thought partners were not from NY
2. Fereira: distinction between linguistic and non-linguistic ambiguity
   Non-linguistic: the little bat: were pretty got
   Linguistic: the bat that’s an animal: were not very good
3. Kempe:
   Induced mood before experimental task
   Watched a clip from Bambi
   Or watched death scene in lion king
   Then asked participants to record speech that would be played back to others
   Happy speakers were less likely to modify the object
   More likely to make mistakes

Question 5

interactive alignment model

Answer 5

Pickering and Garrod: what are people doing when they talk to someone else
People construct a situational model of their discussion
Shared understanding of what the conversation is about
Repetition of level is important: conceptual, syntactic, phonological
Assumes little explicit reasoning about the person we speak to.