The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity

Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a language are more similar to each other than they need to be. In this study, we investigate how this property evolves under the influence of competing comm...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cognition Jg. 267; S. 106372
Hauptverfasser:	Keogh, Aislinn, Culbertson, Jennifer, Kirby, Simon
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.02.2026
Schlagworte:	Artificial language learning Communication Computational modelling Efficiency Language evolution Lexicon Artificial language learning Language evolution Efficiency Lexicon Computational modelling Communication
ISSN:	0010-0277, 1873-7838, 1873-7838
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