Naslov
The preference for rounding

Autori
Solt, Stephanie ; Cummins, Chris ; Palmović, Marijan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Linguistic Society of America: Meeting Handbook / - Boston (MA) : LSA, 2013, 205-205

Skup
87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

Mjesto i datum
Boston (MA), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 03.01.2013. - 06.01.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
approximation; experimental pragmatics; granularity

Sažetak
Various evidence points to a speaker preference for communicating numerical information approximately rather than precisely, e.g. by reporting the time as ‘half past three’ when one’s watch reads 3:27. It has been proposed that the tendency to round reflects a strategy aimed at lowering processing costs for the hearer. Focusing on the domain of clock times, we report on two experiments which demonstrate that round values are in fact recalled and manipulated more quickly and accurately than non- round values, and further that this advantage is due not only to numerical roundness itself, but also to participation on a coarse- grained scale.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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