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On the Optimality of the Lexicon
… posits that a pressure towards communicative efficiency shapes natural languages. In this thesis, we investigate the existence, the nature, and the impact of such a pressure in natural languages' lexicons. We investigate the existence of this pressure by (i) estimating what optimal word …