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Neutralization and homophony avoidance in phonological learning [PDF]
Cognition, 2018 Previous research has suggested that homophony avoidance plays a role in constraining language change; in particular, phonological contrasts are less likely to be neutralized if doing so would greatly increase the amount of homophony in the language.
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On Homophony and Rényi Entropy [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021 Homophony's widespread presence in natural languages is a controversial topic. Recent theories of language optimality have tried to justify its prevalence, despite its negative effects on cognitive processing time; e.g., Piantadosi et al. (2012) argued homophony enables the reuse of efficient wordforms and is thus beneficial for languages.
Pimentel, Tiago +3 more
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Performance of musical scale in traditional vocal homophony: Lithuanian examples [PDF]
Muzikologija, 2014 Acoustical measurements of pitches in a dozen songs exemplifying the Lithuanian traditional vocal homophony were carried out. Several phenomena were revealed. First, the entire scales experience gradual transposition (rise) from the beginning to
Ambrazevičius Rytis
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Between gods and green: ritual plant use of traditional festivals in the Chaoshan region, China [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground The Chaoshan region in Lingnan, South China, is known for its dense festival calendars and household-based ritual practices in which plants serve both practical and symbolic roles.
Jiating Wang +12 more
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What Homophones Say about Words. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The number of potential meanings for a new word is astronomic. To make the word-learning problem tractable, one must restrict the hypothesis space. To do so, current word learning accounts often incorporate constraints about cognition or about the mature
Isabelle Dautriche, Emmanuel Chemla
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Crossroads A Journal of English StudiesThe paper analyses imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay, with a view to delineating the way two concepts or only one concept is valid for the discourse.
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Commentary: The ‘Musilanguage’ Model of Language Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Aleksey Nikolsky
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Uluslararası Filoloji Bengü, 2021 Köktürk Türkçesi üzerinde yapılacak anlam bilim çalışmaları, Türk dilinin eskiliğini ve gelişmişliğini saptamada önemli bir rol üstlenmektedir.
Rabia Saral
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Humanities, 2023 The topic of the article is the status of translation and homophony in philosophy, psychoanalysis and philology. The article focuses on the question of how translation is carried out using the basic principle of equivalence of meaning by homophony and ...
Judith Kasper
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Linguistics, 2022 Perfective stem allomorphy and stress are morphological traits which interact in complex ways in Romance verbal inflection. This article surveys the whole range of variation of these traits across Romance varieties, typologizes the observed interactions ...
Herce Borja
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