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Overspecification in action-oriented discourse : Task importance affects the production of overspecifications and overspecifications increase identification efficiency in perception
A. Arts,Alfons Maes,Leo G. M. Noordman,Carel Jansen +3 more
- 01 Jan 2008
- pp 29-32
TL;DR: Overspecification shows to be a pervasive instructive production strategy, which mostly affects the addressee’s identification task in a positive way.
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Abstract: This paper discusses the effect of overspecified reference as a communicative strategy in action-oriented discourse In a perception and a production experiment, based on identical instructive environments, participants were asked to identify an object after reading a minimally specified or overspecified expression, or to produce a referential expression in a low-importance or a high-importance context Overspecification shows to be a pervasive instructive production strategy, which mostly affects the addressee’s identification task in a positive way
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