Information Density and Syntactic Repetition
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Information Density and Syntactic Repetition
In noun phrase (NP) coordinate constructions (e.g., NP and NP), there is a strong tendency for the syntactic structure of the second conjunct to match that of the first; the second conjunct in such constructions is therefore low in syntactic information. The theory of uniform information density predicts that low-information syntactic constructions will be counterbalanced by high information in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12215