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Evolution of language: An empirical study at eBay Big Data Lab
The evolutionary theory of language predicts that a language will tend towards fewer synonyms for a given object. We subject this and related predictions to empirical tests, using data from the eBay Big Data Lab which let us access all records of the words used by eBay vendors in their item titles,...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5738037/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29261686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189107 |