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most citedCommunicative need modulates competition in language change

4 citations · 4 across the 1 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2021

How individuals change language

Richard A Blythe, William Croft

Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a single speaker's lingu…

cs.CL2021

Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby +2

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 si…

cs.CL20204 cited

Communicative need modulates competition in language change

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby +1

All living languages change over time. The causes for this are many, one being the emergence and borrowing of new linguistic elements. Competition between the new elements and olde…

q-bio.QM2020

Coupled differentiation and division of embryonic stem cells inferred from clonal snapshots

Liam J. Ruske, Jochen Kursawe, Anestis Tsakiridis +4

The deluge of single-cell data obtained by sequencing, imaging and epigenetic markers has led to an increasingly detailed description of cell state. However, it remains challenging…

physics.soc-ph2018

Cross-situational learning of large lexicons with finite memory

James Holehouse, Richard A. Blythe

Cross-situational word learning, wherein a learner combines information about possible meanings of a word across multiple exposures, has previously been shown to be a very powerful…

cs.CL2018

Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby +1

The availability of large diachronic corpora has provided the impetus for a growing body of quantitative research on language evolution and meaning change. The central quantities i…