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WK8 L16: Common Ground P2
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What do conversation partners need to monitor?
How
successful communication
has been
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What do speakers need to gauge during communication?
Effectiveness
of their utterances
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What is the title of the paper by Keysar & Henly?
Speakers’ overestimation of their
effectiveness
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In the banquet scenario, what do you ask the
waiter
?
What the
entrée
is
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What does the phrase "Angela shot the man with a gun" illustrate?
Syntactic
ambiguity
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What type of ambiguity is shown in "Currency is no longer exchanged by the banks"?
Lexical
ambiguity
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How can speakers assess their effectiveness in communication?
By using
prosody
and intonation
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What is the method used in the study by Keysar & Henly?
Speaker and Addressee sit
face to face
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What do both the Speaker and Addressee see during the experiment?
Two
possible
interpretations
projected on a
wall
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What does the index for Speaker's overestimation of effectiveness measure?
Probability
of predicting
successful
communication
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What is the probability of Speaker's overestimation of effectiveness?
46%
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What is the probability of Speaker's underestimation of effectiveness?
12%
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What is one reason for speaker's overestimation?
Knowing the
intended
message
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What is the first task for the Speaker in the group activity?
Choose
one
of
two
pictures
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What do speakers do when they repeat descriptions?
Produce less elaborate
expressions
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What is the effect of attenuation on communication?
It makes communication more
efficient
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What are the two explanations for attenuation in communication?
For-the-speaker
and
for-the-addressee
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What does the study by Matthews et al. (2010) investigate?
Children's sensitivity to
referential pacts
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What happens when children interact with their original partner?
They take longer to respond to
switched
expressions
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What does "hyper-conventionalism" suggest about children?
They prefer
old names
over new ones
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What is a conclusion drawn about young children in the study?
They are sensitive to
referential pacts
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What is the trade-off in communication mentioned in the study?
Efficiency
vs.
effectiveness
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What begins early in life according to the study?
Sensitivity to
communicative partners
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What supports interactive communication abilities?
Basic abilities like
priming
and
memory
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