Rational Encoding and Decoding of Referring Expressions
(C03)
Subject Area
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Term
since 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232722074
C3 examines the role of information-theoretic explanations regarding linearization preferences in the production and comprehension of referential expressions. We aim to identify a mechanistic account of the interaction between production and comprehension systems, informed by behavioural and neurophysiological experiments that examine rational strategies underlying online encoding and decoding of referring expressions. We moreover investigate the extent to which linearisation preferences for encoding are derived from information structure may be partly explained by Uniform Information Density (UID).
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