Before revision: The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis, which posits that speakers prefer utterances that distribute information uniformly across the signal, has gained substantial traction in psycholinguistics as an explanation for certain syntactic, morphological, and prosodic choices.
After revision: The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis, which posits that speakers prefer utterances that distribute information uniformly across a linguistic signal, has gained substantial traction in psycholinguistics as an explanation for certain syntactic, morphological, and prosodic choices.