Abstract Language use in conversation is fundamentally incremental, and is guided by the
representations that interlocutors maintain of each other's knowledge and beliefs. While …

During conversation, interlocutors build on the set of shared beliefs known as common
ground. Although there is general agreement that interlocutors maintain representations of …

When people interpret language, they can reduce the ambiguity of linguistic expressions by
using information about perspective: the speaker's, their own, or a shared perspective. In …

The ability to take a different perspective is central to a tremendous variety of higher level
cognitive skills. To communicate effectively, we must adopt the perspective of another …

We examine processes by which dialogue partners form and use representations of joint
knowledge, or common ground, during on-line language processing. Eye-tracked …

One core question in studies of language processing is the extent to which interlocutors
engage in real-time communicative perspective-taking. Current evidence suggests that both …

Our starting point is the apparently-contradictory results in the psycholinguistic literature
regarding whether, when interpreting a definite referring expressions, listeners process …

Little is known about how listeners use spatial perspective information to guide
comprehension. Perspective-taking abilities have been linked to executive function in both …

In reporting past dialogue sequences, speakers not only reconstruct past utterances, but
they also at the same time often comment on these reported utterances, thereby …

This article examines a recurrent format that speakers use for defining ordinary expressions
or technical terms. Drawing on data from four different languages—Flemish, French …