Coming to Terms: Quantifying the Benefits of Linguistic Coordination
Coming to Terms: Quantifying the Benefits of Linguistic Coordination
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797612436816
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Tylen, Kristian
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作者：
Fusaroli, Riccardo;Bahrami, Bahador;Tylen, Kristian
共享公共语言为对话者提供了引导注意力和协调概念模型和行动的精炼工具，从而促进了特别有效的联合感知和行动形式。我们假设，灵活地调整他们的语言实践并集中在一种共同语言上的对话者将提高他们在共同任务中的合作表现。为了验证这一预测，我们采用了一种新颖的实验设计，在实验中，成对的参与者在语言上合作解决一个感知任务。我们发现，二人组成员普遍表现出高度的适应彼此语言习惯的倾向。然而，虽然一般的语言对齐对表现没有积极影响，但特定任务相关词汇的对齐与集体表现强烈相关。换句话说，两组成员选择的语言工具越适合任务，他们的表现就越好。因此，我们的工作揭示了在成功的合作中，社会动态和对任务负担的敏感性之间的相互作用。
Sharing a public language facilitates particularly efficient forms of joint perception and action by giving interlocutors refined tools for directing attention and aligning conceptual models and action. We hypothesized that interlocutors who flexibly align their linguistic practices and converge on a shared language will improve their cooperative performance on joint tasks. To test this prediction, we employed a novel experimental design, in which pairs of participants cooperated linguistically to solve a perceptual task. We found that dyad members generally showed a high propensity to adapt to each other's linguistic practices. However, although general linguistic alignment did not have a positive effect on performance, the alignment of particular task-relevant vocabularies strongly correlated with collective performance. In other words, the more dyad members selectively aligned linguistic tools fit for the task, the better they performed. Our work thus uncovers the interplay between social dynamics and sensitivity to task affordances in successful cooperation.