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Conversation Electrified: ERP Correlates of Speech Act Recognition in Underspecified Utterances
2015
PLoS ONE
The ability to recognize speech acts (verbal actions) in conversation is critical for everyday interaction. However, utterances are often underspecified for the speech act they perform, requiring listeners to rely on the context to recognize the action. The goal of this study was to investigate the time-course of auditory speech act recognition in action-underspecified utterances and explore how sequential context (the prior action) impacts this process. We hypothesized that speech acts are
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120068
pmid:25793289
pmcid:PMC4368040
fatcat:ge4eqdll2bfkrp4yn64oaez4ua