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Between semasiology and onomasiology: leveraging meaning-form mapping to create novel words with a predefined meaning.

2026-07-18

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<p>It is known that humans leverage regularities in form-meaning mapping to answer the semasiological question “what does X mean?”. Yet, in everyday communication we also need the opposite, that is answering the onomasiological question “how do I express X?”. In this study, we explored whether regularities between form and meaning estimated through Linear Discriminative Learning can be used to create novel words t...

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10.31234/osf.io/79zeu_v1
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