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Thanks for your interest in our poster! A video with a poster presentation is available as well as the corresponding text transcript. The first author will be available for questions and comments during the poster session on Friday.

Short Abstract

We explore an information-theoretic account to the usage of topic drop (Ross 1982; Fries 1988), i.e. the omission of a preverbal constituent in German, based on data from a corpus study and two rating studies. We investigate the influence of several factors that impact the processing effort of topic drop: grammatical person, verb surprisal, verb type and topicality. To account for the results, we argue that the use of topic drop follows information-theoretic processing constraints as modeled by the /Uniform Information Density hypothesis/ (Levy & Jaeger 2007).

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