Abstract

The topic of this paper is the interaction of Average Information Content (IC) and frequency of aspect-coded verbs in Linear Mixed Effect Models as predictors of the verbs’ lengths. For 30 languages in focus, it came to light that IC and frequency do not have a simultaneous, positive impact on the length of verb forms: the effect of the IC is high, when the effect of frequency is low and vice versa. This is an indication of Uniform Information Density [13, 14, 15, 16]. Additionally, the predictors IC and frequency yield high correlations between predicted and actual verbs’ lengths.

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