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Speakers and listeners exploit word order for communicative efficiency: A cross-linguistic investigation
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"), but both language groups used more redundant color adjectives in denser displays where it would be more efficient. In Experiments 2A and 2B, we used eye tracking to show that pragmatic contrast is not a processing constraint. Instead, incrementality and efficiency determine that English listeners establish color contrast across categories (BLUE SHAPES > TRIANGULAR ONE), whereas Spanish listeners establish color contrast within a category (TRIANGLES > BLUE ONE). Spanish listeners, however, reversed their visual search strategy when tested in English immediately after. Our results show that speakers and listeners of different languages exploit word order to increase communicative efficiency. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Authors
- Rubio-Fernandez, P., Mollica, F., & Jara-Ettinger, J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Published
- 2021-03
- Volume
- 150
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 583-594
- ISSN
- 0096-3445 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2222
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- W3088873780
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 75
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10
- FWCI
- 6.04
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- Funders
- Research Council of Norway (230718)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Keywords
- word order, communicative efficiency, color adjectives, color contrast, visual search, cross-linguistic differences, English-Spanish comparison, incrementality, visual attention, eye tracking
- MeSH terms
- Auditory Perception, Communication, Humans, Language, Photic Stimulation, Speech Perception
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