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  Language universals rely on social cognition: Computational models of the use of this and that to redirect the receiver’s attention

Woensdregt, M., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2022). Language universals rely on social cognition: Computational models of the use of this and that to redirect the receiver’s attention. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022) (pp. 1382-1388). Toronto, Canada: Cognitive Science Society.

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Woensdregt, Marieke1, Author           
Jara-Ettinger, Julian2, Author
Rubio-Fernandez, Paula3, Author           
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1Language and Computation in Neural Systems, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_3217300              
2Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, ou_persistent22              
3University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: Demonstratives—simple referential devices like this and that—are linguistic universals, but their meaning varies cross-linguistically. In languages like English and Italian, demonstratives are thought to encode the referent’s distance from the producer (e.g., that one means “the one far away from me”),
while in others, like Portuguese and Spanish, they encode relative distance from both producer and receiver (e.g., aquel means “the one far away from both of us”). Here we propose that demonstratives are also sensitive to the receiver’s focus of attention, hence requiring a deeper form of social cognition
than previously thought. We provide initial empirical and computational evidence for this idea, suggesting that producers use
demonstratives to redirect the receiver’s attention towards the intended referent, rather than only to indicate its physical distance.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2022-04-122022-07-30
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Title: the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022)
Place of Event: Toronto, Canada
Start-/End Date: 2022-07-27 - 2022-07-30

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Title: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022)
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Culbertson, Jennifer, Editor
Perfors, Andrew, Editor
Rabagliati, Hugh, Editor
Ramenzoni, Veronica, Editor
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Publ. Info: Toronto, Canada : Cognitive Science Society
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