Novel world knowledge-based audience design task with post-test knowledge attribution survey

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A modified director task measuring adaptation to addressees' world knowledge rather than visual perspective. In each trial a pictured addressee (a child or an elderly woman) appears while the speaker records a message about a target referent; "the participant knew the name of the target referent but was expected to assume that the addressee either (i) did not know the name of the target (unknown test condition) or (ii) did know the name of the target (known control condition)". A post-test survey controls for assumed knowledge, yielding a knowledge attribution score, and the AD score subtracts redundant describing in the known condition from sufficient describing in the unknown condition.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Participants must know the names of target referents and hold condition-matching assumptions, verified by the post-test survey; stimuli require no more than one modifier for an unambiguous description

Constraints

• Conducted with passive confederates, which the authors note have been criticized since interactive contexts increase speakers' informativeness; individual language ability was not included as a model variable

Target Learners

• adolescents aged 11–16

Learning Goals

• pragmatic development
• audience design in referential production
• perspective taking in language production

Claims

• Audience Design Improves Ages 11 12 To 15 16 [+M]
• Ef Does Not Explain Audience Design Development [+M]

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Key Sources

• Arvidsson C., Pagmar D., Uddén J. (2022). When did you stop speaking to yourself? Age-related differences in adolescents' world knowledge-based audience design. Royal Society Open Science 9(11): 220305. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220305

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id	world-knowledge-ad-task-post-test-survey
title	Novel world knowledge-based audience design task with post-test knowledge attribution survey
description	A modified director task measuring adaptation to addressees' world knowledge rather than visual perspective.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-17
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