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The principle of arbitrariness accounts only partly for attested form-to-meaning correspondences in the vocabularies of the languages of the world. Recent research has uncovered substantial patterns of non-arbitrariness in language. Two common forms of non-arbitrariness are iconicity and systematicity, each with complementary advantages in learning and communication. A fully arbitrary vocabulary is unlikely to be a stable feature of natural languages, because form-to-meaning correspondences are shaped by cu

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Firdous Alam

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