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Publication details [#61318]

Katsos, Napoleon, Chris Cummins and Kyriakos Antoniou. 2016. Why only some adults reject under-informative utterances. Journal of Pragmatics 99 : 79–95.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | informativeness | personality | rejecting | working memory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

In many studies, acceptance rates of under-informative utterances exceed 35%. This experimental study offers evidence that age and working memory skill significantly forecast the rate at which under-informative utterances are dismissed, but finds petty aid for impact from a wide range of personality factors.