Incremental adjective processing in referential communication referent type, adjective order, and entropy reduction.
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2022-08-29
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In this study, we aim to investigate the interplay of entropy reduction (which refers to the amount of uncertainty a linguistic unit reduces) and adjective order as well as the interplay of entropy reduction and referent type in incremental adjective processing in utterances containing two pre-nominal modifiers (adjectives). Although the statistical analyses alone do not support our hypotheses, there is reason to speculate that the predicted effects (interaction of Adjective Order and Entropy Reduction and interaction of Referent Type and Entropy Reduction) may be observable in the region before the noun, thus in the region of the second adjective.
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