semantics

Language use is only sparsely compositional: The case of English adjective-noun phrases in humans and large language models

Aalok Sathe, Evelina Fedorenko, Noga Zaslavsky
2024 CogSci
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Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication

Eleonora Gualdoni, Mycal Tucker, Roger P. Levy, Noga Zaslavsky
2024 SCiL
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The evolution of color naming reflects pressure for efficiency: Evidence from the recent past

Noga Zaslavsky*, Karee Garvin*, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier
2022 Journal of Language Evolution
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The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication

Francis Mollica, Geoffrey Bacon, Noga Zaslavsky, Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp
2021 PNAS
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