https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/act001-dmamcl
The results suggest that comprehenders constructed a nonliteral syntactic analysis, which we argue was predicted early in the sentence.Human languages evolve to make communication more efficient. But efficiency creates trade-offs what is efficient for speakers is not always efficient for comprehenders. How do languages balance these competing pressures? We focus on Zipf's meaning-frequency law, the observation that frequent wordforms have more meanings. On the one hand, this law could reflect a speaker-oriented pressure to reuse f
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