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    "title": "Coordination, rather than pragmatics, shapes colexification when the pressure for efficiency is low.",
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    "abstract": "We investigate the phenomenon of colexification, where a sin-\ngle wordform is associated with multiple meanings. Previ-\nous research on colexification has primarily focused on em-\npirical studies of different properties of the meanings that de-\ntermine colexification, such as semantic similarity or meaning\nfrequency. Meanwhile, little attention was paid to the word-\nforms' properties, despite being the original approach advo-\ncated by Zipf. Our preregistered study examines whether word\nlength influences word choice for colexification using a novel\ndyadic communication game (N = 64) and a computational\nmodel grounded in the Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework.\nContrary to initial predictions, participants did not exhibit a\nstrong preference for efficient colexification (namely colexi-\nfying multiple concepts using short words, when long alter-\nnatives are available). The results align more closely with a\nsimpler coordination model, where dyads align on a function-\ning lexical convention with relatively little influence from the\nefficiency of that convention. Our study highlights the pos-\nsibility that colexification choices are strongly determined by\nthe pressure for coordination, with weaker influences from se-\nmantic similarity or meaning frequency. This is most likely\nexplained by weak pressure for efficiency in our experimental\ndesign.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Agent-based Modeling; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment"
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            "first_name": "Alexey",
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            "last_name": "Koshevoy",
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            "institution": "Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS",
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            "institution": "Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS",
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            "institution": "PSL University",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T19:00:00+01:00",
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