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Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution - Nature Human Behaviour

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Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution - Nature Human Behaviour

A central goal of linguistics is to understand how words evolve. Past research has found that macro-level factors such as frequency of word usage and population size explain the pace of lexical evolution. Here we focus on cognitive and affective factors, testing whether valence (positivity–negativity) explains lexical evolution rates. Using estimates of cognate replacement rates for 200 concepts on an Indo-European language tree spanning six to ten millennia, we

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