Marie Hallo

Biographic Data

ID6773229
NAMEMarie Hallo
GIVEN NAMESMarie
FAMILY NAMEHallo
SIGNATUREHALLO M
AFFILIATIONSUniversité Paris Sciences et Lettres
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Short words are more likely to refer to multiple meanings across 192 language families

    Open AccessAlexey Koshevoy, Marie Hallo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language Evolution2026

    This study tested, for the first time on a diverse cross-linguistic dataset, the existence of a negative correlation between a word’s length and its semantic ambiguity. This correlation can be predicted on various grounds: as a way to make communication more efficient, as a mechanical consequence of the greater availability of short wordforms, or as a corollary of Zipf’s laws of abbreviation and meaning, which state that frequent words are shorte…

  • Did Teddy Bears Culturally Evolve to Be Cuter? A Preregistered Replication

    Quentin Borredon, Zeynep Bulamac et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cognition and Culture2025References: 1

    This pre-registered replication study explores the impact of perceived cuteness on the evolution of cultural artifacts, testing whether neotenic traits – eye size, forehead height, and head roundness – have increased in teddy bears over time. In previous research, Hinde & Barden (1980) found an increase in teddy bear neoteny while Gould (1985) found that Mickey Mouse’s features became more neotenic with time. However, both studies lacked statisti…