Wordform Similarity Increases With Semantic Similarity: An Analysis of 100 Languages
Although the mapping between form and meaning is often regarded as arbitrary, there are in fact well-known constraints on words which are the result of functional pressures associated with language use and its acquisition. In particular, languages have been shown to encode meaning distinctions in th...
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Wiley Blackwell
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113025 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-8716 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X |