Learning From Collective Human Behavior to Introduce Diversity in Lexical Choice Vahed Qazvinian Department of EECS University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

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dept. of theoretical and applied linguistics Measuring and Modelling Lexical Diversity across Languages Christian Bentz & Douwe Kiela

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dept. of theoretical and applied linguistics Towards a Computational Model of Grammaticalization and Lexical Diversity Christian Bentz & Paula Buttery

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• Linguistics
• Historical linguistics
• Communication
• Language
• Grammaticalization
• Lexicon
• Content word
• Lexical diversity
• Lexical

Causality in historical language change: The co-evolution of population structure and lexical diversity Christian Bentz Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge Darwin College, Silver Street,

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• Sociolinguistics
• Quantitative linguistics
• Language change
• Comparative linguistics
• Origin of language
• Language
• Second-language acquisition
• George Kingsley Zipf
• Language death
• Linguistics
• Science
• Historical linguistics

CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences (major), Biological Sciences (minor) TITLE Adaptive languages: Modeling the co-evolution of population structure and lexical diversity

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• Quantitative linguistics
• Power laws
• Entropy
• Information theory
• Lexical item
• Zipf–Mandelbrot law
• Creole language
• Lexical density
• Loanword
• Linguistics
• Computational linguistics
• Historical linguistics