Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples
Reduces length of frequently or recently used expressions by removing final character.
1 | REDUCE(speakerID, proposition)
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speakerID |
Pointer to speaker agent. |
proposition |
Proposition with words whose forms may be reduced. |
Reduction is an online production process only. It does not affect the lexical representation of the speaker (but cf. EROSION
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a proposition, i.e. a list:
external |
representation of the external argument, possibly with shortened form |
internal |
representation of the internal argument, if identified, possibly with shortened form |
verb |
representation of the action argument, possibly with shortened form |
target |
target event to be described |
Sander Lestrade
Nettle, D. (1999). Linguistic diversity. New York: OUP.
Jurafsky, Daniel, Alan Bell, Michelle Gregory & William D. Raymond. 2001. "Probabilistic relations between words: Evidence from reduction in lexical production". In: J. Bybee and P. Hopper (eds), Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure, 229-255. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins.
1 2 3 4 | FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
REDUCE(1, proposition) #only effective if proposition includes frequently/recently used words
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