Feedback Relevance Spaces: Interactional Constraints on Processing Contexts in Dynamic Syntax

Abstract Feedback such as backchannels and clarification requests often occurs subsententially, demonstrating the incremental nature of grounding in dialogue. However, although feedback can occur at any point within an utterance, it typically does not do so, tending to Relevance Spaces (FRSs). We present a corpus study acknowledgements British English, describe how our low-level, semantic processing model Dynamic Syntax accounts for this feedback. The trivially 85% cases where FRSs, but we also be integrated or interpreted non-FRSs using predictive, interactive formalism. This shows serves continually realign contexts thus manage characteristic divergence convergence that is key moving dialogue forward.