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Least Effort and Alignment in Task-Oriented Communication
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Polyphony Bruna; Christopher Kello – Cognitive Science, 2025
Conversational partners align the meanings of their words over the course of interaction to coordinate and communicate. One process of alignment is lexical entrainment, whereby partners mirror and abbreviate their word usage to converge on shared terms for referents relevant to the conversation. However, lexical entrainment may result in…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Lexicology, Indo European Languages, Language Usage