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informativeness-simplicity tradeoff: a standalone construct

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Cognitive linguistics

proposal that languages' semantic category systems, such as kinship terms, lie near the best tradeoff between simple systems and informative communication.

In cognitive linguistics, informativeness-simplicity tradeoff refers to proposal that languages' semantic category systems, such as kinship terms, lie near the best tradeoff between simple systems and informative communication. This meaning comes from Kemp (2012) in Science.[1]

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category4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs kinship3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two ideas of relatedness simple2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

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Kemp, C., & Regier, T. (2012). Kinship Categories Across Languages Reflect General Communicative Principles. Science, 336(6084), 1049-1054. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1218811

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