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Info/Information Theory: Speakers Choose Shorter Words in Predictive Contexts
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Mahowald, Kyle; Fedorenko, Evelina; Piantadosi, Steven T.; Gibson, Edward – Cognition, 2013
A major open question in natural language research is the role of communicative efficiency in the origin and on-line processing of language structures. Here, we use word pairs like "chimp/chimpanzee", which differ in length but have nearly identical meanings, to investigate the communicative properties of lexical systems and the communicative…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Natural Language Processing, Information Theory