REDUCE: Reduce length of expressions
In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

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)

`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)

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.

PREPARE

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
REDUCE(1, proposition)	#only effective if proposition includes frequently/recently used words