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A bathtub by any other name: the reduction of German compounds in predictive contexts
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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The Uniform Information Density hypothesis (UID) predicts that lexical choice between long and short word forms depends on the predictability of the referent in context, and recent studies have shown such an effect of predictability on lexical choice during online production. We here set out to test whether the UID predictions hold up in a related setting, but different language (German) and different phenomenon, namely the choice between compounds (e.g. Badewanne / bathtub) or their base forms (Wanne / tub). Our study is consistent with the UID: we find that participants choose the shorter base form more often in predictive contexts, showing an active tendency to be information-theoretically efficient.
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URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3w6451rz
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Recognition of Minimal Pairs in (un)predictive Sentence Contexts in two Types of Noise
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Formalizing the Role of Typicality and Alternative Utterances in Metaphor Understanding
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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Mishearing as a Side Effect of Rational Language Comprehension in Noise
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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Semantic Predictability Facilitates Comprehension of Degraded Speech in a Graded Manner
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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The online processing of causal and concessive discourse connectives
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