Color typicality and content planning in definite reference

We investigated whether knowledge of the typical color of objects affects content planning in reference production. In a language production experiment, we elicited identifying de- scriptions of typically colored (e.g., orange goldfish) and atypically colored objects (orange crocodile). In line with our expectations, speakers are more likely to redundantly include color in a description of a target when it has an atypical color, than when it is typically colored. This finding leads to some recommendations for current computational models of con- tent planning, such as the Incremental Algorithm.