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The aim is to investigate how audience design strategies influence argument marking and ambiguity avoidance in language.

Argument marking reflects audience design effects

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Argument marking reflects audience design effects, suggesting that ambiguity avoidance influences language use.

The aim is to investigate how audience design strategies influence argument marking and ambiguity avoidance in language.
Contrasts typological and diachronic evidence on argument marking.
Analyzes the effects of audience design strategies on language production.
Explores psycholinguistic research connections to argument marking.
Generic audience design strategies significantly influence argument marking.
Evidence of utterance-specific audience design is limited and often replaced by generic strategies.
High ambiguity potential correlates with non-differential argument marking.

Ilja A. Seržant (2026) studied this question.

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