Publications

Publication details [#56485]

Horton, William S. and Katya Lysander. 2012. Conversational Grounding in Younger and Older Adults: The Effect of Partner Visibility and Referent Abstractness in Task-Oriented Dialogue. Discourse Processes 49 (1) : 29–60.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational style | dialogue | grounding | referent | task-dependency of processing

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study employs a card-matching task to investigate how conversational grounding in a task-oriented dialogue, involving younger and older adults, is affected both by direct partner visibility and by referent abstractness.