Social biases can lead to less communicatively efficient languages.

Language is subject to a variety of pressures. Recent work has documented that many aspects of language structure have properties that appear to be shaped by biases for the efficient communication of semantic meaning. Other work has investigated the role of social pressures, whereby linguistic varia...

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Published in:	Language Acquisition Vol. 30; no. 3/4; pp. 230 - 256
Main Authors:	Fedzechkina, Masha, Hall Hartley, Lucy, Roberts, Gareth
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Dec2023
Subjects:	Dialects Linguistic change Social pressure Language & languages Language ability testing
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost