@inproceedings{Sekicki2018, title = {Visual cues and the graded reduction of referential uncertainty}, author = {Maria Staudte andMirjana Sekicki}, url = {https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~knoeferp/AMLaP2018/Program_files/AMLaP2018_proceedings.pdf}, year = {2018}, date = {2018}, booktitle = {24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)}, address = {Berlin}, abstract = {Previous research has shown that a speaker’s referential gaze towards an object she is meaning to mention reduces the uncertainty about the target. This visual cue allows the listener to anticipate the likely resolution of the reference and to process the actual referent noun more easily. However, little is known about if and how a visual cue itself might reflect the reduction of uncertainty about the upcoming reference. The present study manipulated the degree to which cue specificity reduces uncertainty about the referent, aiming to shed more light on how visual cues are included in the interpretation of the linguistic material.}, pubstate = {published}, type = {inproceedings} }