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Quantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical Decline (2021.tacl-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on lexical decline suggest that cognitive and linguistic factors play a role in the survival of words and their success in the linguistic ecosystem. |
| Approach: | They propose a variety of psycholinguistic factors that are predictive of lexical decline, in which words greatly decrease in frequency over time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed factors show significant differences in the expected direction between each curated set of declining words and their matched stable words. |