Lexical alignment to non-native speakers

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• dc.contributor.author Ivanova, Iva
• dc.contributor.author Branigan, Holly
• dc.contributor.author McLean, Janet
• dc.contributor.author Costa, Albert, 1970-
• dc.contributor.author Pickering, Martin
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T07:46:23Z
• dc.date.available 2022-10-25T07:46:23Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract Two picture-matching-game experiments investigated if lexical-referential alignment to non-native speakers is enhanced by a desire to aid communicative success (by saying something the conversation partner can certainly understand), a form of audience design. In Experiment 1, a group of native speakers of British English that was not given evidence of their conversation partners’ picture-matching performance showed more alignment to non-native than to native speakers, while another group that was given such evidence aligned equivalently to the two types of speaker. Experiment 2, conducted with speakers of Castilian Spanish, replicated the greater alignment to non-native than native speakers without feedback. However, Experiment 2 also showed that production of grammatical errors by the confederate produced no additional increase of alignment even though making errors suggests lower communicative competence. We suggest that this pattern is consistent with another collaborative strategy, the desire to model correct usage. Together, these results support a role for audience design in alignment to non-native speakers in structured task-based dialogue, but one that is strategically deployed only when deemed necessary.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by Spanish Government funds (grants SEJ05 62542CV00568007 and PSI 2008-01191/PSIC, awarded to Albert Costa, FPU fellowship AP2005-4496, awarded to Iva Ivanova) and an ESRC grant RES-062-23-0376, awarded to Holly Branigan and Martin Pickering.
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• dc.identifier.citation Ivanova I, Branigan H, McLean J, Costa A, Pickering M. Lexical alignment to non-native speakers. Dialogue & Discourse. 2021 Oct;12(2):145-73. DOI: 10.5210/dad.2021.205
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/dad.2021.205
• dc.identifier.issn 2152-9620
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54570
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Public Knowledge Project
• dc.relation.ispartof Dialogue & Discourse. 2021 Oct;12(2):145-73
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2008-01191
• dc.rights Copyright (c) 2021 Dialogue & Discourse. Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Audience design
• dc.subject.keyword Communicative success
• dc.subject.keyword Lexical choice
• dc.subject.keyword Picture-matching game
• dc.title Lexical alignment to non-native speakers
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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