WK8 L16: Common Ground P2

Cards (24)

  • What do conversation partners need to monitor?
    How successful communication has been
  • What do speakers need to gauge during communication?
    Effectiveness of their utterances
  • What is the title of the paper by Keysar & Henly?
    Speakers’ overestimation of their effectiveness
  • In the banquet scenario, what do you ask the waiter?

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