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Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study

Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a language. Cross‐linguistic lexification patterns have been shown to be largely predictable, as similar concepts are often colexified. We test a recent claim that, beyond this general tendency, communicative needs play...

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Autores principales: Karjus, Andres, Blythe, Richard A., Kirby, Simon, Wang, Tianyu, Smith, Kenny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9285023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34491584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13035