title: Priming and alignment: Mechanism or consequence?
abstract: We agree with Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) proposal that dialogue is an important empirical and theoretical test bed for models of language processing. However, we offer two cautionary notes. First, the enterprise will require explicit computational models. Second, such models will need to incorporate both joint and separate speaker and hearer commitments in ways that go beyond priming and alignment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, River Campus, Rochester, NY 14627 sschmidt@bcs.rochester.edu mtan@bcs.Rochester.edu http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/sschmidt/ http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/mtan/mtan.html.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brown-Schmidt
authors.forename: Michael K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Tanenhaus