Informativity, Topicality, and Speech Cost: Comparing Models of Speakers' Choices of Referring Expressions

Autor/inn/en	Orita, Naho; Vornov, Eliana; Feldman, Naomi H.
Titel	Informativity, Topicality, and Speech Cost: Comparing Models of Speakers' Choices of Referring Expressions
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 58 (2021) 8, S.743-765 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1080/0163853X.2021.1878449
Schlagwörter	Interpersonal Communication; Speech Communication; Preferences; Form Classes (Languages); Simulation; Speech Acts; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonale Kommunikation; Analytischer Sprachbau; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Sprechakt; Diskursanalyse; Linguistische Theorie
Abstract	This study formalizes and compares two major hypotheses in speakers' choices of referring expressions: the topicality model that chooses a form based on the topicality of the referent, and the rational model that chooses a form based on the informativity of the form and its speech cost. Simulations suggest that both the topicality of the referent and the informativity of the word are important to consider in speakers' choices of reference forms, while a speech cost metric that prefers shorter forms may not be. (As Provided).
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