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    "pk": 49337,
    "title": "Usage frequency predicts lexicalization across languages",
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    "abstract": "Languages are more likely to have lexical items for some concepts (e.g. CHILD) than others (e.g. PARENT). We propose that the communicative need of a concept influences how often it is lexicalized across languages, and test the hypothesis that usage frequency (which also reflects communicative need) predicts  lexicalization across languages. Our analyses consider more than a thousand concepts, and demonstrate that  average usage frequency across dozens of languages is a relatively good predictor of the typological prevalence of lexicalization across hundreds of languages. This finding implies that cross-linguistic regularities in lexicalization can be attributed in part to shared communicative need across cultures.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Anthropology; Linguistics; Concepts and categories; Semantics of language; Cross-linguistic analysis"
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    "section": "Abstracts with Oral Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1m3870tq",
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        {
            "first_name": "Temuulen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Khishigsuren",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Melbourne",
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        {
            "first_name": "Francis",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mollica",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Melbourne",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ekaterina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vylomova",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The University of Melbourne",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Charles",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kemp",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Melbourne",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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