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    "pk": 28635,
    "title": "Availability-Based Production Predicts Speakers’ Real-time Choices of MandarinClassifiers",
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    "abstract": "Speakers often face choices as to how to structure their in-tended message into an utterance. Here we investigate the in-fluence of contextual predictability on the encoding of linguis-tic content manifested by speaker choice in a classifier lan-guage, Mandarin Chinese. In Mandarin, modifying a nounwith a numeral obligatorily requires the use of a classifier.While different nouns are compatible with different SPECIFICclassifiers, there is a GENERAL classifier that can be used withmost nouns. When the upcoming noun is less predictable,using a more specific classifier would reduce the noun’s sur-prisal, potentially facilitating comprehension (predicted to bepreferred under Uniform Information Density, Levy & Jaeger,2007), but the specific classifier may be dispreferred from aproduction standpoint if the general classifier is more easilyavailable (predicted by Availability-Based Production; Bock,1987; Ferreira & Dell, 2000). Here we report a picture-namingexperiment confirming two distinctive predictions made byAvailability-Based Production.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Language production; speaker choice; Chineseclassifiers; noun predictability"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h77s696",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Meilin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Roger",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Levy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}