The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Referring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose
from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal? Rational theories of language use …

A foundational assumption of human communication is that speakers should say as much as
necessary, but no more. Yet, people routinely produce redundant adjectives and their …

The rates of overspecification of color, pattern, and size are compared, to investigate how
salience and absoluteness contribute to the production of overspecification. Color and …

Upon hearing a scalar adjective in a definite referring expression such as “the big…,”
listeners typically make anticipatory eye movements to an item in a contrast set, such as a …

Contrary to the Gricean maxims of quantity (Grice, in: Cole, Morgan (eds) Syntax and
semantics: speech acts, vol III, pp 41–58, Academic Press, New York, 1975), it has been …

Most theories of pragmatics and language processing predict that speakers avoid excessive
informational redundancy. Informationally redundant utterances are, however, quite …

How do speakers get other people to understand what they are talking about? Language
wouldn't succeed unless we were able to refer to ideas and things in the world, and get other …

A psychophysical analysis of referential communication establishes a causal link between a
visual stimulus and a speaker's perception of this stimulus, and between the speaker's …

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