Quantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical Decline

AbstractWe adopt an evolutionary view on language change in which cognitive factors (in addition to social ones) affect the fitness of words and their success in the linguistic ecosystem. Specifically, we propose a variety of psycholinguistic factors—semantic, distributional, and pho...

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Main Authors: David Francis, Ella Rabinovich, Farhan Samir, David Mortensen, Suzanne Stevenson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2021-01-01
Series:Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00441/108934/Quantifying-Cognitive-Factors-in-Lexical-Decline