The length of words reflects their conceptual complexity

Cognition

Volumn 153, Issue , 2016, Pages 182-195

  Lewis, Molly L ^a   Frank, Michael C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Information theory; Language evolution; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL COMPLEXITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS; WORD LENGTH; SEMANTICS;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84969645879     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.04.003     Document Type: Article

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