Publications
Publication details [#3415]
Fortescue, Michael D. 1980. A discourse production model for 'twenty questions'. John Benjamins. vii + 137 pp. 
Annotation
A pragmatic analysis of informal, recorded sessions of the 'twenty questions' game, which forms the basis for a cognitive model capable of generating the observed behavior. It is an attempt at integrating linguistic, psychological and systemsmodelling approaches for the investigation of a clearly demarked domain of verbal interaction.