2007
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.357
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You said it before and you'll say it again: Expectations of consistency in communication.

Abstract: Repeated reference creates strong expectations in addressees that a speaker will continue to use the same expression for the same object. The authors investigate the root reason for these expectations by comparing a cooperativeness-based account (Grice, 1975) with a simpler consistency-based account. In two eye-tracking experiments, the authors investigated the expectations underlying the effect of precedents on comprehension. The authors show that listeners expect speakers to be consistent in their use of exp… Show more

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“…Participants also reported not wanting to confuse their partners by changing strategies. These findings are in line with the notion that ''speakers" try to be consistent in their communicative manners (Shintel & Keysar, 2007).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Participants also reported not wanting to confuse their partners by changing strategies. These findings are in line with the notion that ''speakers" try to be consistent in their communicative manners (Shintel & Keysar, 2007).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Findings from Shintel and Keysar (2007) further challenge the assumption that grounding and mutual acceptance as in live interaction yield larger effects of common ground. In two experiments, Shintel and Keysar held constant listeners' knowledge about precedents while manipulating their beliefs about whether these precedents were mutually known.…”
Section: Referential Precedents and Expectations Of Consistencymentioning
confidence: 73%
“…However, it is only in the case in which the listener knows that speaker knows that the listener has observed the labeling event, that the episode becomes part of the common ground; if there is no co-presence-e.g., if listeners secretly observed the labeling episode over a video link-then they have no basis for believing that the speaker knows that they know. Speaker effects in precedent use may be independent of whether these higher-level links in the inference chain have been completed, and as such, may reflect basic memory operations or egocentric heuristics rather than common ground (Shintel & Keysar, 2007).…”
Section: Potential Mechanisms Underlying the Effectsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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