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. 2022 Apr 13;3(2):287–317. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00066

Table 1. .

Examples of four trials in the audience design task for two different addressees

Addressee Test trial: Unknown condition Control trial: Known condition
Target Example of paraphrasing Competitor Target
6-year-old child Corset The beige thing that looks like a dress Bikini Banana
91-year-old person Drone The machine with four propellers Helicopter Recorder

Note. For the test trials, the competitor object and an example of a paraphrase indicating that the participant has succeeded in taking the addressee’s perspective are given. The two objects are shown in Figure S2. In this example, the object to be named was a corset (the competitor was a bikini), and when the addressee was a small child, an appropriate label would be the beige thing that looks like a dress, whereas a pragmatically inappropriate label would be undergarment since a child probably does not know what a corset’s function is, and bikini also fits this label.