Patterns of Closeness and Abstractness in Colexifications: The Case of Indigineous Languages in the Americas

Yiyi Chen; Johannes Bjerva

doi:10.48550/arXiv.2312.11069

Patterns of Closeness and Abstractness in Colexifications: The Case of Indigineous Languages in the Americas

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Colexification refers to linguistic phenomena where multiple concepts (meanings) are expressed by the same lexical form, such as polysemy or homophony. Colexifications have been found to be pervasive across languages and cultures. The problem of concreteness/abstractness of concepts is interdisciplinary, studied from a cognitive standpoint in linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, neurophysiology, etc. In this paper, we hypothesize that concepts that are closer in concreteness/abstractness are more likey to colexify, and we test the hypothesis across indigenous languages in Americas.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date	Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.11069
Publication status	Published - Jul 2023
Event	20th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology - Toronto, Canada Duration: 14 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2023

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Conference	20th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	14/07/2023 → 14/07/2023

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Multilingual Modelling for Resource-Poor Languages
Bjerva, J., Lent, H. C., Chen, Y., Ploeger, E., Fekete, M. R. & Lavrinovics, E.
Carlsbergfondet, Google
01/09/2022 → 31/08/2025
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Chen, Y & Bjerva, J 2023, Patterns of Closeness and Abstractness in Colexifications: The Case of Indigineous Languages in the Americas. in Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Association for Computational Linguistics, 20th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Toronto, Canada, 14/07/2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.11069

Patterns of Closeness and Abstractness in Colexifications: The Case of Indigineous Languages in the Americas. / Chen, Yiyi ; Bjerva, Johannes.
Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.

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