The structure of the lexicon reflects principles of communication

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 845-850

  Lewis, Molly ^a   Sugarman, Elise ^a   Frank, Michael C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; pragmatics

Indexed keywords

PRAGMATIC; WORD MEANING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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