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