The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events
This study investigated the effects of audience design and goal bias in Chinese speakers’ message generation of source-goal motion events (e.g., A bird flies from the tree to the house), using picture description and memory tasks. The status of the source (e.g., the tree) or the goal (e.g., the hous...
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| description | This study investigated the effects of audience design and goal bias in Chinese speakers’ message generation of source-goal motion events (e.g., A bird flies from the tree to the house), using picture description and memory tasks. The status of the source (e.g., the tree) or the goal (e.g., the house) was manipulated as known or unknown to the confederate addressees. The findings revealed that the participants were more likely to omit the sources when they were mutually known to the addressee than when they were not. However, participants showed similar accuracy in detecting source changes, regardless of whether the sources were known to the addressee. Moreover, they consistently mentioned goals and showed similar accuracy in detecting goal changes, regardless of whether the goals were known or unknown to the addressee. The results suggest that audience design influenced the speakers’ mention of sources, but not their memory of them. It did not affect either the mention or the memory of goals. Goal bias was not consistently observed across the two experiments, both linguistically and in memory. This suggests a fragile goal bias in Chinese. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that audience design and goal bias influence the message generation of motion events in Chinese speakers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1425e08dc56b4ac4960c03c54dfb95d12025-08-20T08:07:06ZengCambridge University PressLanguage and Cognition1866-98081866-98592025-01-011710.1017/langcog.2025.10024The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion eventsChen Zhao0Rui Xu1Tingting Sun2Bilingual Cognition and Development Lab, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, https://ror.org/00fhc9y79 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies , Guangzhou, ChinaBilingual Cognition and Development Lab, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, https://ror.org/00fhc9y79 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies , Guangzhou, ChinaBilingual Cognition and Development Lab, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, https://ror.org/00fhc9y79 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies , Guangzhou, ChinaThis study investigated the effects of audience design and goal bias in Chinese speakers’ message generation of source-goal motion events (e.g., A bird flies from the tree to the house), using picture description and memory tasks. The status of the source (e.g., the tree) or the goal (e.g., the house) was manipulated as known or unknown to the confederate addressees. The findings revealed that the participants were more likely to omit the sources when they were mutually known to the addressee than when they were not. However, participants showed similar accuracy in detecting source changes, regardless of whether the sources were known to the addressee. Moreover, they consistently mentioned goals and showed similar accuracy in detecting goal changes, regardless of whether the goals were known or unknown to the addressee. The results suggest that audience design influenced the speakers’ mention of sources, but not their memory of them. It did not affect either the mention or the memory of goals. Goal bias was not consistently observed across the two experiments, both linguistically and in memory. This suggests a fragile goal bias in Chinese. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that audience design and goal bias influence the message generation of motion events in Chinese speakers.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980825100240/type/journal_articleaudience designgoal biaslanguage productionmessage generation |
| spellingShingle | Chen Zhao Rui Xu Tingting Sun The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events Language and Cognition audience design goal bias language production message generation |
| title | The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events |
| title_full | The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events |
| title_fullStr | The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events |
| title_short | The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events |
| title_sort | role of audience design and goal bias in message generation evidence from chinese source goal motion events |
| topic | audience design goal bias language production message generation |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980825100240/type/journal_article |
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