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Strauss, U., Altmann, G.

Age and polysemy of words

The older a group of words all of which came into existence in the same time interval the greater its mean polysemy, i.e. polysemy increases with time. The dependence will be demonstrated on the unique but slightly distorted data set created by D. Wolff (1972) using the English dictionary.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 6, 03/2003
Pages: 61-64

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