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Languages, Volume 6, Issue 2
June 2021 - 52 articles
Cover Story: Data from syntactic change in Icelandic and English provides striking evidence for unconscious information theoretic biases that underlie language production. In planning their sentences, speakers use the various syntactic means at their disposal to distribute information content as evenly as possible across the whole sentence. This bias shows itself during the OV-to-VO changes in Icelandic and English, as speakers born in the middle of the change in progress make use of both variants to manipulate the information distributions in their sentences. Even as VO overtakes OV during the histories of these languages, speakers subtly deviate from their baseline frequencies of OV and VO in order to accommodate higher or lower information Subjects and Objects. Furthermore, unlike OV/VO, the bias towards even information distributions is constant over this long historical period. View this paper
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