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    "pk": 27826,
    "title": "Communicative Efficiency, Uniform Information Density, and the Rational Speech Act theory",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "One major class of approaches to explaining the distribu-tion of linguistic forms is rooted in communicative effi-ciency. For theories in which an utterance’s communica-tive efficiency is itself dependent on the distribution oflinguistic forms in the language, however, it is less clearhow to make distributional predictions that escape circu-larity. I propose an approach for these cases that involvesiterating between speaker and listener in the RationalSpeech Act theory. Characteristics of the fixed points ofthis iterative process constitute the distributional predic-tions of the theory. Through computer simulation I applythis approach to the well-studied case of predictability-sensitive optional function word omission for the theoryof Uniform Information Density, and show that the ap-proach strongly predicts the empirically observed nega-tive correlation between phrase onset probability and rateof function word use.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "communicative efficiency"
        },
        {
            "word": "Uniform information density"
        },
        {
            "word": "Rational speech act theory"
        },
        {
            "word": "Syntactic optionality"
        },
        {
            "word": "Pragmatics"
        },
        {
            "word": "Computational Modeling"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3m8596qg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Roger",
            "middle_name": "P",
            "last_name": "Levy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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