Redundancy and reduction: Speakers manage syntactic information density
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Speakers optimize information density through syntactic reduction
If language users are rational, they might choose to structure their utterances so as to optimize communicative properties. In particular, information-theoretic and psycholinguistic considerations suggest that this may include maximizing the uniformity of information density in an utterance. We investigate this possibility in the context of syntactic reduction, where the speaker has the option ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Psychology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0010-0285
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.02.002