Alexey Koshevoy
Biographic Data
| ID | 78294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexey Koshevoy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexey |
| FAMILY NAME | Koshevoy |
| SIGNATURE | KOSHEVOY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4466-0639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Short words are more likely to refer to multiple meanings across 192 language families
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…
Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation holds for individual characters across a broad range of writing systems
Zipf's Law of Abbreviation - the idea that more frequent symbols in a code are simpler than less frequent ones - has been shown to hold at the level of words in many languages. We tested whether it holds at the level of individual written characters. Character complexity is similar to word length in that it requires more cognitive and motor effort for producing and processing more complex symbols. We built a dataset of character complexity and fr…
Can Recall Data Be Trusted? Evaluating Reliability of Interview Data on Traditional Multilingualism in Highland Daghestan
In this article, we address the issue of reliability of quantitative data on multilingualism of the past obtained as recall data. More specifically, we investigate whether the interviewees' assessments of the language repertoires of their late relatives (indirect data) provide results that are quantitatively similar to those obtained from the people of the same age range themselves (direct data). The empirical data we use come from an ongoing fie…
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Can Recall Data Be Trusted? Evaluating Reliability of Interview Data on Traditional Multilingualism in Highland Daghestan
In this article, we address the issue of reliability of quantitative data on multilingualism of the past obtained as recall data. More specifically, we investigate whether the interviewees' assessments of the language repertoires of their late relatives (indirect data) provide results that are quantitatively similar to those obtained from the people of the same age range themselves (direct data). The empirical data we use come from an ongoing fie…
Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation holds for individual characters across a broad range of writing systems
Zipf's Law of Abbreviation - the idea that more frequent symbols in a code are simpler than less frequent ones - has been shown to hold at the level of words in many languages. We tested whether it holds at the level of individual written characters. Character complexity is similar to word length in that it requires more cognitive and motor effort for producing and processing more complex symbols. We built a dataset of character complexity and fr…
Short words are more likely to refer to multiple meanings across 192 language families
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…
Computer Science (2 works) · Language and cultural evolution (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Authorship Attribution and Profiling (1 work) · Character (mathematics) (1 work) · Code (set theory) (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work)