Simplification Is Not Dominant in the Evolution of Chinese Characters

Linguistic systems are hypothesised to be shaped by pressures towards communicative efficiency that drive processes of simplification. A longstanding illustration of this idea is the claim that Chinese characters have progressively simplified over time. Here we test this claim by analyzing a dataset...

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Autores principales: Han, Simon J., Kelly, Piers, Winters, James, Kemp, Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MIT Press 2022
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9987343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36891037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00064

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9987343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36891037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00064

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