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    "pk": 25832,
    "title": "A Computational Evaluation of Two Laws of Semantic Change",
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    "abstract": "For more than a century scholars have proposed laws of se-\nmantic change that characterize how words change in meaning\nover time. Two such laws are the law of differentiation, which\nproposes that near-synonyms tend to differentiate in meaning\nover time, and the law of parallel change, which proposes that\nrelated words tend to undergo parallel changes in meaning. Re-\nsearchers have identified a handful of changes that are consis-\ntent with each proposed law, but there are no systematic eval-\nuations that assess the validity and generality of these compet-\ning laws. Here we evaluate these laws by using a large corpus\nto assess how thousands of related words changed in meaning\nover the twentieth century. Our analyses show that the law of\nparallel change applies more broadly than the law of differ-\nentiation, and thereby illustrate how large-scale computational\nanalyses can place laws of semantic change on a more secure\nfooting.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "semantic change; law of differentiation; law of\nparallel change; computational semantics"
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    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6301h6rd",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yang",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Charles",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kemp",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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