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Effects of average and specific context probability on reduction of function words BE and HAVE

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dc.contributor.authorBarth, Danielle
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-10T23:57:55Z
dc.date.available2020-11-10T23:57:55Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-05
dc.date.updated2022-07-31T08:20:05Z
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2199-174Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/215313
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenancehttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/31210... "The published version can be archived in a Non-Commercial Institutional Repository after 12 month embargo" from Sherpa Romeo site (as at 10/11/2020).en_AU
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Mouton
dc.rights© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH
dc.sourceLinguistics Vanguard
dc.subjectPredictability
dc.subjectInformativity
dc.subjectFunction words
dc.subjectReduction
dc.subjectContraction
dc.titleEffects of average and specific context probability on reduction of function words BE and HAVE
dc.typeJournal article
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-09-27
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBarth, Danielle, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBarth, Danielle, u1008958en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor200408 - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)en_AU
local.identifier.absfor010401 - Applied Statisticsen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970120 - Expanding Knowledge in Languages, Communication and Cultureen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5851225xPUB22en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume5en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1515/lingvan-2018-0055en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85065799083
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000481635000003
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/lingvan/lingvan-overview.xmlen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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