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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…
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…
Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model
Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau +2
The principle of compositionality, which enables natural language to represent complex concepts via a structured combination of simpler ones, allows us to convey an open-ended set…
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…