Indefinite Pronouns Optimize the Simplicity/Informativeness Trade‐Off

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Cognitive Science 46 (5):e13142 (2022)
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Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 5, May 2022.

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Principles of categorization [Електронний ресурс]/Eleonora Rosch.E. Rosch - 1978 - In Eleanor Rosch & Barbara Lloyd (eds.), Cognition and Categorization. Lawrence Elbaum Associates.
Martin Haspelmath, Indefinite Pronouns.Martin Haspelmath - 1999 - Linguistics and Philosophy 22 (6):663-678.

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