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Dialogue processing: Automatic alignment or controlled understanding?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Hadas Shintel*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL60637
Howard C. Nusbaum*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL60637

Abstract

Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) mechanistic account of dialogue assumes that linguistic alignment between interlocutors takes place automatically, without using cognitive resources. However, even the most basic processes of speech perception depend on resource use. The lack of invariant mapping between input patterns and interpretations in dialogue, as in speech perception, may require controlled, rather than automatic, processing.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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