Perspective-taking behavior as the probabilistic weighing of multiple domains

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• 作者：Daphna Heller^a ; ^{daphna.heller@utoronto.ca" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Christopher Parisien^b ; Suzanne Stevenson^a
• 关键词：Common ground ; Perspective taking ; Reference ; Pragmatics ; Definites ; Bayesian modeling ; Eye-tracking
• 刊名：Cognition
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：149
• 期：Complete
• 页码：104-120
• 全文大小：2218 K

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Our starting point is the apparently-contradictory results in the psycholinguistic literature regarding whether, when interpreting a definite referring expressions, listeners process relative to the common ground from the earliest moments of processing. We propose that referring expressions are not interpreted relative solely to the common ground or solely to one’s Private (or egocentric) knowledge, but rather reflect the simultaneous integration of the two perspectives. We implement this proposal in a Bayesian model of reference resolution, focusing on the model’s predictions for two prior studies: Keysar, Barr, Balin, and Brauner (2000) and Heller, Grodner and Tanenhaus (2008). We test the model’s predictions in a visual-world eye-tracking experiment, demonstrating that the original results cannot simply be attributed to different perspective-taking strategies, and showing how they can arise from the same perspective-taking behavior.