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    "pk": 26382,
    "title": "Simpler structure for more informative words: a longitudinal study",
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    "abstract": "As new concepts and discoveries accumulate over time, theamount of information available to speakers increases as well.One would expect that an utterance today would be more in-formative than an utterance 100 years ago (basing informationon surprisal; Shannon, 1948), given the increase in technol-ogy and scientific discoveries. This prediction, however, is atodds with recent theories regarding information in human lan-guage use, which suggest that speakers maintain a somewhatconstant information rate over time. Using the Google Ngramcorpus (Michel et al., 2011), we show for multiple languagesthat changes in lexical information (a unigram model) are actu-ally negatively correlated with changes in structural informa-tion (a trigram model), supporting recent proposals on infor-mation theoretic constraints.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "information rate"
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        {
            "word": "information theory"
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        {
            "word": "Google"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Uriel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Priva",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Brown University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Emily",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gleason",
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            "institution": "Brown University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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