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Charles Kemp¹, Terry Regier

¹Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. ckemp@cmu.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|May 26, 2012

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Los sistemas de clasificación de parentesco a través de los idiomas equilibran la simplicidad y la comunicación informativa. Este estudio revela una compensación casi óptima entre estos principios, lo que explica las limitaciones en la forma en que los idiomas clasifican las relaciones familiares.

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Área de la Ciencia:

Antropología Lingüística La antropología lingüística es la antropología lingüística.
La lingüística computacional es la lingüística computacional.
Ciencias Cognitivas Ciencias Cognitivas.

Sus antecedentes:

Las categorías de parentesco exhiben variación a través de los idiomas, sin embargo, esta variación está limitada.
Las explicaciones anteriores para estas restricciones a menudo se centran en reglas específicas de parentesco, que carecen de aplicabilidad general.

Objetivo del estudio:

Proponer una explicación de dominio general para las restricciones en los sistemas de clasificación de parentesco.
Para demostrar que la simplicidad y la información son principios clave que rigen estos sistemas.

Principales métodos:

Análisis computacional de los sistemas de clasificación de parentesco en todo el mundo.
Modelado de la compensación entre la simplicidad de la categoría y la información de la comunicación.

Principales resultados:

Los sistemas de parentesco logran un equilibrio casi óptimo entre simplicidad e información.
Los principios propuestos explican las limitaciones previamente identificadas en la clasificación de parentesco.

Conclusiones:

La simplicidad y la información ofrecen una base de dominio general para comprender la variación en los sistemas de categorías.
Estos principios pueden aplicarse a dominios semánticos más allá del parentesco.