Adjustment of speaker’s referential expressions to an addressee’s likely knowledge and link with theory of mind abilities

To communicate cooperatively, speakers must determine what constitutes the common ground with their addressee and adapt their referential choices accordingly. Assessing another person’s knowledge requires a social cognition ability termed theory of mind. This study relies on a novel referential comm...

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Main Authors: Amelie M. Achim, Marion eFossard, Sophie eCouture, André eAchim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00823/full