When speaker and listener interact in a communication, the speaker wants to express himself clearly and quickly. The listener, in turn, wants to quickly retrieve a brief and clear message.
These needs and constraints of speaker and listener shape som...
When speaker and listener interact in a communication, the speaker wants to express himself clearly and quickly. The listener, in turn, wants to quickly retrieve a brief and clear message.
These needs and constraints of speaker and listener shape some strategies for avoiding the repetition of various grammatical units in a sentence. One of these strategies is the Repetition Constraint Strategy.
The general rule of this strategy is "SUBSTITUTE AND OMIT THE DOUBLING UNITS WHEREVER YOU CAN, EXCEPT WHERE THIS LEADS TO AMBIGUITY."
Deletion, substitution and insertion are very useful and important, in that they shorten the message, and they can make the connections of meaning more easy to grasp.
This thesis is concerned with how the repetition of various grammatical units can be avoided by deletion, substitution and insertion.