Successful communication would seem to require that speakers and
\nlisteners distinguish
\nbetween their own knowledge, commitments and intentions, and those of their
\ninterlocutors. A particularly important distinction is between shared
\nknowledge (common
\nground) and private knowledge (privileged ground). Keeping track of
\nwhat is shared and
\nwhat is privileged would seem, however, to be too computationally
\nexpensive and too
\nmemory intensive to inform real-time language processing—a position
\nsupported by
\nstriking experimental evidence that speakers and listeners act
\negocentrically, showing
\nstrong and seemingly inappropriate intrusions from their own privileged
\nground. I’ll
\nreview recent results from my laboratory demonstrating that (a)
\nspeaker’s utterances
\nprovide evidence about whether they believe information is shared or
\nprivileged and (b)
\nlisteners are extremely sensitive to this evidence. I’ll suggest an
\nintegrative framework
\nthat explains discrepancies in the literature.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MIT Linguistics Colloquium 12\/04: Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Title: Common ground and perspective-taking in language processing Time: Friday, December 04, 2009, 3:30pm Place: 32-141 Successful communication would seem to require that speakers and listeners distinguish between their own knowledge, commitments and intentions, and those of their interlocutors. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}