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Authors: Ivan P. Yamshchikov 1 ; Cyrille Merleau Nono Saha 1 ; Igor Samenko 2 and Jürgen Jost 1

Affiliations: 1 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrasse 22, Leipzig, Germany ; 2 Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS, Russia

Keyword(s): Evolution of Language, Semantic Structures, Polysemy.

Abstract: This position paper looks into the formation of language and shows ties between structural properties of the words in the English language and their polysemy. Using Ollivier-Ricci curvature over a large graph of synonyms to estimate polysemy it shows empirically that the words that arguably are easier to pronounce also tend to have multiple meanings.

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Yamshchikov, I.; Saha, C.; Samenko, I. and Jost, J. (2020). It Means More if It Sounds Good: Yet Another Hypothesis Concerning the Evolution of Polysemous Words. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - COMPLEXIS; ISBN 978-989-758-427-5; ISSN 2184-5034, SciTePress, pages 143-148. DOI: 10.5220/0009582801430148

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title={It Means More if It Sounds Good: Yet Another Hypothesis Concerning the Evolution of Polysemous Words},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - COMPLEXIS},
year={2020},
pages={143-148},
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doi={10.5220/0009582801430148},
isbn={978-989-758-427-5},
issn={2184-5034},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - COMPLEXIS
TI - It Means More if It Sounds Good: Yet Another Hypothesis Concerning the Evolution of Polysemous Words
SN - 978-989-758-427-5
IS - 2184-5034
AU - Yamshchikov, I.
AU - Saha, C.
AU - Samenko, I.
AU - Jost, J.
PY - 2020
SP - 143
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0009582801430148
PB - SciTePress