personal names

Communicative efficiency and institutional pressure on language
How do languages become the way they are today? An influential view is that languages are shaped by pressures towards communicative …
Sihan Chen
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Cross-cultural structures of personal name systems reflect general communicative principles
The structure of personal names appears to differ widely across cultures. Using census records and historical datasets, we present an …
Michael Ramscar, Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald
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Cross-cultural structures of personal name systems reflect general communicative principles