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= 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)
   * [[http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/papers/http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/papers/JaegerWasow06_BLS.pdf|Jaeger and Wasow (2006)]]
   * [[http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/papers/WasowJaegerOrrDGfSpaper.pdf|Wasow et al. (2009)]]
  * Experiments:
   * [[ProjectsSyntacticReductionORCreductionExperiments|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: 
   * [[http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/papers/Jaeger09UIDcomplementizers.pdf|Jaeger (submitted)]].
 * '''Reduction of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs)''' 
  * Corpus studies: 
   * [[ProjectsSyntacticReductionSRCreduction|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.