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Direct linkSilvey, Catriona; Kirby, Simon; Smith, Kenny – Cognitive Science, 2015
Words refer to objects in the world, but this correspondence is not one-to-one: Each word has a range of referents that share features on some dimensions but differ on others. This property of language is called underspecification. Parts of the lexicon have characteristic patterns of underspecification; for example, artifact nouns tend to specify…
Descriptors: Definitions, Learning, Language Usage, Diachronic Linguistics
