Reuse what you can, differentiate what you must; at every level of the word. A unified explanation of cross-linguistic regularity at and below the word level. Now out in Nature Human Behaviour, from Thomas Brochhagen, Xixian Liao, Jamie Wright, and Carmen Saldana:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Languages exhibit striking regularities in how meanings are mapped to word forms, yet analogous patterns at the subword level remain under-explored. This study fills the gap with a large-scale cross-l...
