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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Lexical differentiation"”.
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Lexical differentiation in language production and comprehension
… Experiment 1 replicated and extended this “lexical differentiation” effect by demonstrating that speakers used two different mechanisms, modification, and the use of subordinate level nouns, to differentiate current from past referents. In Experiments 2 and 3, we examine whether addressees …
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Mechanisms of conversation: audience design and memory
… contributions to the referential phenomenon of lexical differentiation, aiming to understand the relationship between memory for discourse referents in dialogue and referential form. The results of three experiments provide insights into how memory for the discourse history guides language use …