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    "title": "Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of sound symbolism",
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    "abstract": "This paper uses phylogenetic modeling to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of sound symbolism in the world's languages. \nApplying our model to sound-meaning correspondences reported in the literature, we find that many previously established associations are weaker than expected when analyzed using our framework. This is possibly because certain sound-meaning associations are artifacts of slow-changing vocabulary items rather than specific preferences for certain sounds in words with certain meanings. For sound-meaning associations for which we find evidence, the maintenance of sound symbolism appears to be due to a tendency to preserve words in certain meanings if certain sounds are present.",
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            "word": "Linguistics; Evolution; Language development; Phonology; Computational Modeling; Phylogenetic Reconstruction"
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            "first_name": "Chundra",
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            "institution": "University of Zurich",
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            "last_name": "Jäger",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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