Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary
mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual …

Grammatical encoding is one of the earliest stages in linguistic encoding. One broadly
accepted view holds that grammatical encoding is primarily or exclusively affected by …

Speakers can produce utterances with more or less articulatory detail or even completely
omit certain words, while still conveying the same message. Similar reduction exists at …

We explored perspective-taking behavior in a visuospatial mental rotation task that requires
listeners to adopt an egocentric or “other-centric” frame of reference. In the current task …

A well-known effect in speech production is that more predictable linguistic constructions
tend to be reduced. Recent work has interpreted this effect in an information-theoretic …

Research on spatial perspective-taking often focuses on the cognitive processes of isolated
individuals as they adopt or maintain imagined perspectives. Collaborative studies of spatial …

When speakers describe the world, they typically do so from their own perspective.
However, they are able to adopt a different perspective, and sometimes do so even when …

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to examine the lexical and pragmatic factors
that may contribute to turn-by-turn failures in communication (ie, miscommunication) that …

Recent proposals hold that the cognitive systems underlying language production exhibit
computational properties that facilitate communicative efficiency, ie, an efficient trade-off …

Garrod and Pickering (2004) maintain that conversation is easy because automatic
alignment occurs at various levels during conversation. Other related theories of alignment …