Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2004
We agree with Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) proposal that dialogue is an important empirical and theoretical test bed for models of language processing. However, we offer two cautionary notes. First, the enterprise will require explicit computational models. Second, such models will need to incorporate both joint and separate speaker and hearer commitments in ways that go beyond priming and alignment.
1. We use the word “thee” to indicate a disfluent pronunciation of the word “the” (and not in the old English usage as a pronoun).