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:
[wiki:/ORCreductionExperiments 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.
- Corpus studies:
Complement clauses (CCs)
- Corpus studies:
[http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/papers/Jaeger09UIDcomplementizers.pdf Jaeger (submitted)].
- Corpus studies:
Reduction of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs)
- Corpus studies:
[wiki:/SRCreduction 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.
- Corpus studies:
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.