Taking Perspective in Conversation: The Role of Mutual Knowledge in Comprehension

Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 32 - 38
Published: Jan 1, 2000
Abstract
When people interpret language, they can reduce the ambiguity of linguistic expressions by using information about perspective: the speaker's, their own, or a shared perspective. In order to investigate the mental processes that underlie such perspective taking, we tracked people's eye movements while they were following instructions to manipulate objects. The eye fixation data in two experiments demonstrate that people do not restrict the...
Paper Details
Title
Taking Perspective in Conversation: The Role of Mutual Knowledge in Comprehension
Published Date
Jan 1, 2000
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
32 - 38
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