Add to ORKGThe principle of arbitrariness accounts only partly for attested form-to-mean-ing correspondences in the vocabul-aries of the languages of the world. Recent research has uncovered sub-stantial patterns of non-arbitrariness in language. Two common forms of non-arbitrari-ness are iconicity and systematicity, each with complementary advantages in learning and communication. A fully arbitrary vocabulary is unlikely to be a stable feature of natural lan-guages, because form-to-meaning correspondences are shaped by cul-tural evolutionary processes which favour not just discriminability but also learnability and communicative utility
We propose a characterization of language that does not rest on the hypothesis that meaning is neces...
Current views about language are dominated by the idea of arbitrary connections between linguistic f...
Grammatical forms are said to evolve via two main mechanisms. These are, respectively, the `descent'...
The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only partly f...
The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only partly f...
Throughout the history of linguistics, there has been a tendency to believe that there is no relatio...
Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word forms and their ...
Arbitrariness is a distinctive feature of human language, and a growing body of comparative work is ...
In modern linguistics the principle that the linguistic sign is arbitrary, is a neglected, misunders...
It is generally assumed that the expressions of a natural language are largely arbitrary. That is, a...
Understanding the driving factors behind typological patterns, or universals, has long been an impor...
The study entitled ‘Non-arbitrariness in the Tiv grammar: An appraisal of onomatopoeias and sound sy...
It is a long established convention that the relationship between sounds and meanings of words is es...
I confront arbitrariness of the sign to a criterion assessing the quality of language, logical syste...
Trabajo presentado a la 9th European Conference in Artificial Life (ECAL), celebrada en Lisboa (Port...
We propose a characterization of language that does not rest on the hypothesis that meaning is neces...
Current views about language are dominated by the idea of arbitrary connections between linguistic f...
Grammatical forms are said to evolve via two main mechanisms. These are, respectively, the `descent'...
The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only partly f...
The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only partly f...
Throughout the history of linguistics, there has been a tendency to believe that there is no relatio...
Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word forms and their ...
Arbitrariness is a distinctive feature of human language, and a growing body of comparative work is ...
In modern linguistics the principle that the linguistic sign is arbitrary, is a neglected, misunders...
It is generally assumed that the expressions of a natural language are largely arbitrary. That is, a...
Understanding the driving factors behind typological patterns, or universals, has long been an impor...
The study entitled ‘Non-arbitrariness in the Tiv grammar: An appraisal of onomatopoeias and sound sy...
It is a long established convention that the relationship between sounds and meanings of words is es...
I confront arbitrariness of the sign to a criterion assessing the quality of language, logical syste...
Trabajo presentado a la 9th European Conference in Artificial Life (ECAL), celebrada en Lisboa (Port...
We propose a characterization of language that does not rest on the hypothesis that meaning is neces...
Current views about language are dominated by the idea of arbitrary connections between linguistic f...
Grammatical forms are said to evolve via two main mechanisms. These are, respectively, the `descent'...