Predicting meaning in the dyad
Résumé
This study investigated the role of meaning prediction in dyadic interactions. Participants engaged in a semantic association game where predictability of upcoming semantic categories was manipulated. Results showed that predictability sped up speech production in both interlocutors. Critically, our study reveals that meaning prediction not only aids language comprehension and subsequent speech production for the interlocutor completing a predictable sentence, but facilitates the verbal behavior from the conversational partner even more. This result demonstrates an incremental dyadic predictability effect in interlocutors during language interaction; a finding which offers empirical support for a key property of theories on joint action and interactive dialogue models, namely that successful social interaction and language use involve predicting and representing linguistic representations of ‘both’ partners in a dyad.
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