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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Information Theory

Background:

  • Language production may be driven by communicative efficiency.
  • Speakers might distribute information evenly across discourse for efficient transfer.
  • Previous work suggests conditional probabilities influence production preferences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how preceding cues integrate into contextualized probabilities.
  • To model the decay of cue effectiveness based on recency.
  • To connect information-theoretic models of discourse to activation-based models.

Main Methods:

  • Analytically derived a model of cue effectiveness decay.
  • Evaluated the model against cross-linguistic data from 12 languages.
  • Related contextualized probability distributions to lexical network activation.

Main Results:

  • Cue effectiveness decays as a function of recency.
  • The derived model shows cross-linguistic validity.
  • Information-theoretic probabilities align with activation levels in lexical networks.

Conclusions:

  • Preceding cues are integrated into language production based on their informativity and recency.
  • The study provides a novel link between information theory and cognitive mechanisms in language.
  • Findings support a unified view of language production driven by efficiency and memory constraints.