Indefinite Pronouns Optimize the Simplicity/Informativeness Trade‐Off
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13142
Abstract: Abstract The vocabulary of human languages has been argued to support efficient communication by optimizing the trade‐off between simplicity and informativeness. The argument has been originally based on cross‐linguistic analyses of vocabulary in semantic domains… read more here.
Keywords: trade; informativeness trade; simplicity informativeness; indefinite pronouns ... See more keywords