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Effects of average and specific context probability on reduction of function words BE and HAVE
Linguistics Vanguard ( IF 0.896 ) Pub Date : 2019-05-08 , DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2018-0055
Danielle Barth 1
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Abstract In a study of word shortening of HAVE and contraction of BE, it is found that both high transitional probability and high average context probability (low informativity) result in reduction. Previous studies have found this effect for content words and this study extend the findings to function words. Average context probability is by construction type, showing that words are shorter in constructions with high average predictability, namely in perfect constructions for HAVE and in future and progressive constructions for BE. These findings show that in cases of grammaticalization, it is not an increase in frequency that results in reduction, but a decrease in informativity.

中文翻译:

平均和特定上下文概率对功能词BE和HAVE减少的影响

摘要在对HAVE的单词缩短和BE的收缩进行的研究中,发现高过渡概率和高平均上下文概率(低信息性)都会导致减少。先前的研究已经发现了对内容词的影响,并且这项研究将发现扩展到了功能词。平均上下文概率是按构造类型划分的,表明在具有较高平均可预测性的构造中,即在HAVE的理想构造以及BE的未来构造和渐进构造中,单词较短。这些发现表明,在语法化的情况下,导致频率降低的不是增加频率,而是信息性的降低。
更新日期:2019-05-08
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