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Using language: Communicative acts
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The article was published on 1996-01-01. It has received 2737 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Communicative language teaching & Comprehension approach.read more
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Where does language come from? Some reflections on the role of deictic gesture and demonstratives in the evolution of language
TL;DR: The authors argued that demonstra-stratives constitute a universal class of linguistic expressions that are commonly used in combination with a deictic pointing gesture to establish joint attention, a cognitive phenomenon that is closely related to Arbib's notion of complex imita- tion.
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Smartphones as multimodal communication devices to facilitate clinical knowledge processes: randomized controlled trial.
TL;DR: The results show the value of annotation functions for digital and mobile technology for interclinician communication and medical informatics, and the use of guided noticing (the integration of speech, images, and image annotation) leads to significantly improved knowledge gains for visually represented knowledge.
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Preschoolers Flexibly Adapt to Linguistic Input in a Noisy Channel.
TL;DR: This article found that 4-and 5-year-old-but perhaps not younger-children flexibly adjusted their interpretations as cues changed in reliability, depending on whether the children privileged perceptual input or top-down expectations.
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Social Dilemma in Knowledge Communication via Shared Databases
TL;DR: An extensive literature review based on research on social dilemmas presents possible individual and structural dilemma solutions and their effectiveness for the communication dilemma is discussed.
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Inferring Difficulty: Flexibility in the Real-time Processing of Disfluency.
TL;DR: A mini-artificial lexicon is used to dissociate difficulty from these properties of objects in natural situations and it is proposed that in new situations listeners spontaneously infer what may cause production difficulty.