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,
2018-01-08T19:26:23Z.
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