Ambiguous words probably make communicating easier

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 08:20 in Psychology & Sociology

It's a good thing some words have many meanings—ambiguous words actually make communication easier and may be an inevitable consequence of a language's evolution, according to a new SFI working paper by External Professor Ricard Sole and Pompeu Fabra University physicist Luis Seoane.

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