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Bohn, Manuel; Le, Khuyen Nha; Peloquin, Benjamin; Köymen, Bahar; Frank, Michael C. – Developmental Science, 2021
In conversation, individual utterances are almost always ambiguous, with this ambiguity resolved by context and discourse history ("common ground"). One important cue for disambiguation is the topic under discussion with a particular partner (e.g., "want to pick?" means something different in a conversation with a bluegrass…
Descriptors: Cues, Ambiguity (Context), Preschool Children, Interpersonal Communication