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    "pk": 49142,
    "title": "Soft production preferences emerge from a bottleneck on memory",
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    "abstract": "Soft production preferences are a key feature of incremental language production, yet they lack a well-defined unified explanatory theory. Here, we propose an information-theoretic theory of availability effects grounded in the notion of lossy-context working memory, which takes the form of a cost function that can be applied to any computational-level model of language production. We show that production policies that minimize this cost function naturally give rise to key soft preferences observed in empirical data, including frequency bias, heavy-NP shift, and agreement attraction. We then show a novel prediction made by the model regarding the entropy of arguments' thematic roles, and show that this effect holds in corpus data.",
    "language": "eng",
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            "first_name": "Neil",
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            "last_name": "Rathi",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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            "first_name": "Richard",
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            "first_name": "Dan",
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            "last_name": "Jurafsky",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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    "date_published": "2025-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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