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    "pk": 29480,
    "title": "Simple kinship systems are more learnable",
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    "abstract": "Natural languages partition meanings into labelled categoriesin different ways, but this variation is constrained: languagesappear to achieve a near-optimal trade-off between simplicityand informativeness. Across 3 artificial language learning ex-periments, we verify that objectively simpler kinship systemsare easier for human participants to learn, and also show thatthe errors which occur during learning tend to increase sim-plicity while reducing informativeness. This latter result sug-gests that pressures for simplicity and informativeness operatethrough different mechanisms: learning favours simplicity, butthe pressure for informativeness must be enforced elsewhere,e.g. during language use in communicative interaction.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "language; kinship; complexity"
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    "section": "Concepts and Systems",
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        {
            "first_name": "Kenny",
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            "last_name": "Smith",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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            "last_name": "Kirby",
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            "first_name": "Jia",
            "middle_name": "E.",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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