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Verb phrase ellipsis avoids troughs in the ID profile: An information-theoretic account to VPE based on evidence from rating and reading time data
- Lisa Schäfer
- Robin Lemke
- Ingo Reich
- Heiner Drenhaus
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While verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) is well-studied theoretically and psycholinguistically, it remains unclear why speakers use ellipsis at all. We present an acceptability rating and a self-paced reading study that show that the uniform information density hypothesis (Jaeger & Levy 2007) is adequate to explain encoding preferences: By using VPE speakers avoid troughs in the information density profi…
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