Contrasting monologue and dialogue processing

• Monologue

  • Decoupled production and comprehension
  • Dominated by global frequency of representations [lexical frequency (Morton,’69), meaning frequency effects (Rayner et al. ‘94), frequency of syntactic configurations (MacDonald, ‘94)]

• Dialogue

  • Tightly coupled production & comprehension
  • Dominated by local alignment rather than global frequency

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