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== Deletion of optional double clitic in South American Spanish ==

We are exploring to what extend Uniform Information Density explains the deletion clitics in certain dialects of Spanish. Spanish in general requires the doubling of indirect objects (Example 1.1.). with a syntactically independent (and phonologically dependent) word called clitic. South American Spanish allows the doubling of the direct objects with a clitic which may or may not agree in number and gender with the noun phrase they corefer (Example 1.2.). 

=== Example ===
{{{
Maria le  escribe una carta  a  Pedro.
      IO                     IO
Maria him writes  a   letter to Pedro.
}}} 


=== Example ===
{{{
Lo         veo      el edificio. 
{it-Masc}  {I see}  the building.

Lo   veo     la niña. 
him  {I see} the girl.

}}} 


'''Optional Double Clitic''' may occur along side the doubling of direct object as well. In such cases, the clitic undergoes phonological word transformation. "le lo" transforms to "se lo".