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Information Density and Syntactic Repetition
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Temperley, David; Gildea, Daniel – Cognitive Science, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Syntax, Repetition, Nouns, Probability