Ambiguity and language evolution: evolution of homophones and syllable number of words *.(LINGUISTICS)(Table)(Report)

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

We investigate the evolution of homophones and its relation to the evolution of syllable number of words, based on the quantitative analysis on the historical data and simulation. We suggest that homophones are the outcome of arranging form-meaning associations according to Zipf's law to maximize the referential power under effort for the speaker constraints. We also discuss the neural bases of ambiguity and the relation between ambiguity and robustness in language evolution. Furthermore, we show that homophones are stable and cumulate with the times. To ...

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