It Means More If It Sounds Good: Yet Another Hypothesis Concerning the Evolution of Polysemous Words

Ivan P. Yamshchikov; Saha C. M.; Samenko I.; Jost J.

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It Means More If It Sounds Good: Yet Another Hypothesis Concerning the Evolution of Polysemous Words

P. 143–148.

Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Saha C. M., Samenko I., Jost J.

This position paper looks into the formation of language and shows ties between structural properties of the words in the English language and their polysemy. Using Ollivier-Ricci curvature over a large graph of synonyms to estimate polysemy it shows empirically that the words that arguably are easier to pronounce also tend to have multiple meanings.

Keywords: polysemy of words evolution of language

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COMPLEXIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk

Vol. 1. , Setúbal: SciTePress, 2020.

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The article deals with the problems of ambiguous terms that until recently were considered unambiguous. With the development of cognitive problems of terminology in the study terms of polysemy new approaches have appeared. Cognitive science found that cognitive processes are carried out systematically. Therefore, in the transmission of meanings, leading to the polysemy of the ...

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