Comparing Theories of Speaker Choice Using a Model of Classifier Production in Mandarin Chinese

Speakers often have more than one way to express the same meaning. What general principles govern speaker choice in the face of optionality when near semantically invariant alternation exists? Studies have shown that optional reduction in language is sensitive to contextual predictability, such that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhan, Meilin, Levy, Roger P
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computational Linguistics 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122953
http://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n18-1181