TY - JOUR

T1 - Communicative success in spatial dialogue

T2 - The impact of functional features and dialogue strategies

AU - Tenbrink, Thora

AU - Andonova, Elena

AU - Schole, Gese

AU - Coventry, Kenny R.

PY - 2017/6/1

Y1 - 2017/6/1

N2 - This paper addresses the impact of dialogue strategies and functional features of spatial arrangements on communicative success. To examine the sharing of cognition between two minds in order to achieve a joint goal, we collected a corpus of 24 extended German-language dialogues in a referential communication task that involved furnishing a dolls’ house. Results show how successful communication, as evidenced by correct placement of furniture items, is affected by a) functionality of the furniture arrangement, b) previous task experience, and c) dialogue features such as description length and orientation information. To enhance research in this area, our 'Dolldialogue' corpus is now available as a free resource on www.dolldialogue.space.

AB - This paper addresses the impact of dialogue strategies and functional features of spatial arrangements on communicative success. To examine the sharing of cognition between two minds in order to achieve a joint goal, we collected a corpus of 24 extended German-language dialogues in a referential communication task that involved furnishing a dolls’ house. Results show how successful communication, as evidenced by correct placement of furniture items, is affected by a) functionality of the furniture arrangement, b) previous task experience, and c) dialogue features such as description length and orientation information. To enhance research in this area, our 'Dolldialogue' corpus is now available as a free resource on www.dolldialogue.space.

U2 - 10.1177/0023830916651097

DO - 10.1177/0023830916651097

M3 - Article

VL - 60

SP - 318

EP - 329

JO - Language and Speech

JF - Language and Speech

SN - 0023-8309

IS - 2

ER -