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Psycholinguistics

the tendency of speakers to spread information evenly across an utterance, for example by adding optional words where content is dense.

In psycholinguistics, uniform information density refers to the tendency of speakers to spread information evenly across an utterance, for example by adding optional words where content is dense. This meaning comes from Jaeger (2010) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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References

Jaeger, T. F. (2010). Redundancy and reduction: Speakers manage syntactic information density. Cognitive Psychology, 61(1), 23-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.02.002

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