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The communicative function of ambiguity in language
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In: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/%7Elpearl/colareadinggroup/readings/PiantadosiEtAl2012_AmbiguityEvo.pdf (2012)
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Do animate arguments come first ?
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In: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2011 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01451725 ; Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2011, Sep 2011, Paris, France. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2011, 2011 (2011)
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Beyond transitional probabilities: Human learners impose a parsimony bias in statistical word segmentation. Paper presented at The Cognitive Science Society
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In: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2010/papers/0272/paper0272.pdf (2010)
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Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation variation in spontaneous speech. Language and Cognition 1(2):147–165
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In: http://www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/langcog.2009.008.pdf (2009)
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Phonetic Production Reflects Syntactic Probability: Evidence from Duration and Disfluency
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In: http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/~nsnider/pubs/tily+al,amlap,2007.pdf (2007)
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Beyond Transitional Probabilities: Human Learners Impose a Parsimony Bias in Statistical Word Segmentation
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In: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/sgwater/papers/cogsci10_bisegle.pdf
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Refer efficiently: Use less informative expressions for more predictable meanings
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In: http://www.stanford.edu/~hjt/tily09cogsci.pdf
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We present the results of a large-scale web experiment investigating comprehenders ’ ability to guess upcoming referents in an unfolding discourse. Participants were given a text that had been cut off just before a noun phrase, and attempted to guess which previously mentioned referent, if any, would be mentioned next. Our results show that writers are more likely to refer using a pronoun or proper name rather than a full NP when comprehenders have less uncertainty about the upcoming referent, and are more likely to use names than pronouns when comprehenders all tend to makes guesses to one or a few incorrect referents. These effects hold beyond other possible influences on the choice of referring expression type. Our results support addressee-oriented accounts of referring form choice (e.g. Brennan & Clark, 1996; Arnold, 2008) and suggest that language is a rational solution to the problem of communication: shorter and less informative expressions are favoured when less information is sufficient to carry the message (e.g.
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entropy; information theory; pronominality; proper names; reference; Shannon game
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.150.7793
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