“Well, that's one way”: Interactivity in parsing and production

Christine Howes, Patrick G. T. Healey, Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2013

We present empirical evidence from dialogue that challenges some of the key assumptions in the Pickering & Garrod (P&G) model of speaker-hearer coordination in dialogue. The P&G model also invokes an unnecessarily complex set of mechanisms. We show that a computational implementation, currently in development and based on a simpler model, can account for more of this type of dialogue data.

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