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Lexical alignment in triadic communication

Lexical alignment refers to the adoption of one’s interlocutor’s lexical items. Accounts of the mechanisms underlying such lexical alignment differ (among other aspects) in the role assigned to addressee-centered behavior. In this study, we used a triadic communicative situation to test which factor...

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Autores principales: Foltz, Anouschka, Gaspers, Judith, Thiele, Kristina, Stenneken, Prisca, Cimiano, Philipp
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25762955
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00127
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author Foltz, Anouschka
Gaspers, Judith
Thiele, Kristina
Stenneken, Prisca
Cimiano, Philipp
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description Lexical alignment refers to the adoption of one’s interlocutor’s lexical items. Accounts of the mechanisms underlying such lexical alignment differ (among other aspects) in the role assigned to addressee-centered behavior. In this study, we used a triadic communicative situation to test which factors may modulate the extent to which participants’ lexical alignment reflects addressee-centered behavior. Pairs of naïve participants played a picture matching game and received information about the order in which pictures were to be matched from a voice over headphones. On critical trials, participants did or did not hear a name for the picture to be matched next over headphones. Importantly, when the voice over headphones provided a name, it did not match the name that the interlocutor had previously used to describe the object. Participants overwhelmingly used the word that the voice over headphones provided. This result points to non-addressee-centered behavior and is discussed in terms of disrupting alignment with the interlocutor as well as in terms of establishing alignment with the voice over headphones. In addition, the type of picture (line drawing vs. tangram shape) independently modulated lexical alignment, such that participants showed more lexical alignment to their interlocutor for (more ambiguous) tangram shapes compared to line drawings. Overall, the results point to a rather large role for non-addressee-centered behavior during lexical alignment.
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spelling pubmed-43275762015-03-11 Lexical alignment in triadic communication Foltz, Anouschka Gaspers, Judith Thiele, Kristina Stenneken, Prisca Cimiano, Philipp Front Psychol Psychology Lexical alignment refers to the adoption of one’s interlocutor’s lexical items. Accounts of the mechanisms underlying such lexical alignment differ (among other aspects) in the role assigned to addressee-centered behavior. In this study, we used a triadic communicative situation to test which factors may modulate the extent to which participants’ lexical alignment reflects addressee-centered behavior. Pairs of naïve participants played a picture matching game and received information about the order in which pictures were to be matched from a voice over headphones. On critical trials, participants did or did not hear a name for the picture to be matched next over headphones. Importantly, when the voice over headphones provided a name, it did not match the name that the interlocutor had previously used to describe the object. Participants overwhelmingly used the word that the voice over headphones provided. This result points to non-addressee-centered behavior and is discussed in terms of disrupting alignment with the interlocutor as well as in terms of establishing alignment with the voice over headphones. In addition, the type of picture (line drawing vs. tangram shape) independently modulated lexical alignment, such that participants showed more lexical alignment to their interlocutor for (more ambiguous) tangram shapes compared to line drawings. Overall, the results point to a rather large role for non-addressee-centered behavior during lexical alignment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4327576/ /pubmed/25762955 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00127 Text en Copyright © 2015 Foltz, Gaspers, Thiele, Stenneken and Cimiano. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Stenneken, Prisca
Cimiano, Philipp
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25762955
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00127
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