Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity?

Article Abstract:

Three experiments were carried out to examine the extent to which naive participants are sensitive to the Gricean Maxim of Quantity. The experiments showed that speakers over-describe almost one-third of the time, listeners do not judge over-descriptions to be any worse than concise expressions, and that over-descriptions trigger eye movements can be interpreted as indicating confusion.

Science & research, Research, Analysis, Eye, Eye movements, Maxims

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Distinguishing effects of structure and decay on attachment and repair: a cue-based parsing account of recovery from misanalyzed ambiguities

Article Abstract:

The cue-based retrieval theory of parsing and reanalysis is presented. It is argued that it is cue-based retrieval parsing that forms syntactic attachments where the grammatical dependency head provides cues to identify its dependents.

Ambiguity

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Disfluencies affect the parsing of garden-path sentences

Article Abstract:

The effect of speech disfluency on syntactic parsing is studied in an examination of the interruption "uh" in a spoken sentence. The results indicated that by signaling a particular structure the disfluence could influence the parser.

Influence, Speech disorders

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