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Cross-linguistic zero-shot communication via ad-hoc pseudowords
2026-01-05
Abstract excerpt
<p>In verbal communication, speakers must encode meanings into signs such as words. Within a given language community, the correspondence between word forms and meanings can become conventionalized. However, speakers from different language communities cannot rely on these shared conventions. Here, we investigate whether purely verbal communication using single words is still possible in such a context, enabled by...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 262e742d-7216-51fd-964b-8bbae9db5a7c
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/g9d4j_v2
