Many forces have been argued to shape natural language lexica, and there are different ways they can be operationalized and interact. We study which out of a set of forces and their interactions best fit cross-linguistic data. Now out in Cognitive Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Human languages balance communicative informativity with complexity, conveying as much as needed through the simplest means required to do so. Yet, these concepts—informativity and complexity—have be...
