Redundancy and Syntactic Reduction

This is a series of corpus-based studies and production experiments on syntactic reduction and too what extent it is driven by redundancy/information density/predictability. Please follow the links below for more information -- some may be only accessible to HLP lab members or HLP lab guests.

Non-subject-extracted relative clauses (NSRCs)
- Corpus studies:
  - Jaeger (2006 -- my thesis)
  - Jaeger and Wasow (2006)
  - Wasow et al. (2009)
- Experiments:
  - Recall, completion, and forced-choice preference experiments on ''that''-omission in object-extracted relative clauses in collaboration with Roger Levy and Vic Ferreira at UCSD.
Complement clauses (CCs)
- Corpus studies:
  - Jaeger (submitted).
Reduction of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs)
- Corpus studies:
  - Reduction of passive SRCs in the BNC\ (so called whiz-deletion). Also, feel free to have a look at the [wiki:/Annotation annotation guidelines for the studies on subject-extracted passive relative clauses in the British National Corpus].
  - Tom Wasow also has done some studies on that-omission in subject-extracted relative clauses in non-standard English (not the same as whiz-deletion), which are summarized in the presentation we gave at the International Relative Conference, Cambridge, September 2007.
to-omission after the verb help : There is some preliminary data, which I presented in some invited talks. Let me know if you want more information.