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who observe that human reasoning leverages rich background knowledge of ‘scripts’ for how situations normally unfold. A ‘restaurant’ script includes artifacts such as tables, chairs, and menus; and events — some of which can be described by object-omitting verbs — such as or- dering, eating, and paying. While not strictly entailed, these default expectations ground our understanding of discourses involving restaurants.

Figure 2 who observe that human reasoning leverages rich background knowledge of ‘scripts’ for how situations normally unfold. A ‘restaurant’ script includes artifacts such as tables, chairs, and menus; and events — some of which can be described by object-omitting verbs — such as or- dering, eating, and paying. While not strictly entailed, these default expectations ground our understanding of discourses involving restaurants.

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lift indeed omits its object more often in the strength-specialist corpus (p < 0.001). Ultimately, this process yields a dataset of 134 verbs across 15 specialist corpora found to omit their objects proportionally more often at a statistically significant level (p < 0.05) in those specialist corpora. Table 2 excerpts these data, available in full at https://osf.io/ kxe3u/.
lift indeed omits its object more often in the strength-specialist corpus (p < 0.001). Ultimately, this process yields a dataset of 134 verbs across 15 specialist corpora found to omit their objects proportionally more often at a statistically significant level (p < 0.05) in those specialist corpora. Table 2 excerpts these data, available in full at https://osf.io/ kxe3u/.
Figure 3. Comparing the selection of 134 verbs in both generalist subreddits and in the specialist subreddits in which they omit their objects significantly more often.
Figure 3. Comparing the selection of 134 verbs in both generalist subreddits and in the specialist subreddits in which they omit their objects significantly more often.
per-million-word counts of verbs in generalist vs specialty subreddits
per-million-word counts of verbs in generalist vs specialty subreddits
lection, nor for frequency, nor for any interaction of either one with routine®. The consistent finding is that high-routine items are rated significantly higher than low-routine items. In sum, these experimental results are consistent with the hypothesis (8) that routine, sep- arated from selection and frequency, facilitates object omission. From the null results found for selection and frequency, nothing positive can be concluded; these factors may still facilitate object omission in ways that this experiment did not identify. But the experiment does iden- tify a striking effect of routine: consistent with the Routine — Omission Hypothesis, a verb is judged to omit its object more easily when the speaker indicates that the verb is more strongly associated with a routine for them.
lection, nor for frequency, nor for any interaction of either one with routine®. The consistent finding is that high-routine items are rated significantly higher than low-routine items. In sum, these experimental results are consistent with the hypothesis (8) that routine, sep- arated from selection and frequency, facilitates object omission. From the null results found for selection and frequency, nothing positive can be concluded; these factors may still facilitate object omission in ways that this experiment did not identify. But the experiment does iden- tify a striking effect of routine: consistent with the Routine — Omission Hypothesis, a verb is judged to omit its object more easily when the speaker indicates that the verb is more strongly associated with a routine for them.
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