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The social basis of referential communication: Speakers construct reference based on listeners' expected visual search.
2020-11-04
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<p>A foundational assumption of human communication is that speakers should say as much as necessary, but no more. In referential communication, the pressure to be efficient is typically formalized as an egocentric bias where speakers aim to minimize production costs. While intuitive, this view has failed to explain why people routinely produce redundant adjectives, particularly color words, or why this phenomenon...
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- 1cc81c77-6526-5c37-b81b-3f813f8b2b63
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- 10.31234/osf.io/fzuvh