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When iconicity stands in the way of abbreviation: No Zipfian effect for figurative signals
Zipf’s law of abbreviation, relating more frequent signals to shorter signal lengths, applies to sounds in a variety of communication systems, both human and non-human. It also applies to writing systems: more frequent words tend to be encoded by less complex graphemes, even when grapheme complexity...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6685622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31390374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220793 |