Online supplement: Short words are more likely to refer to several concepts across 192 language families

Authors:

Preregistration: https://osf.io/8d4vh

Reproduction

Downloading the code & requirements:

The code provided in this repository was executed using Python 3.11.7 and R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31). First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/alexeykosh/2024-MAO-colexification-length/

Then, navigate to the repository:

cd 2024-MAO-colexification-length/

All the required packages are listed in the requirements.txt file. To install the required packages, run the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Data:

Lexibank data used in this study needs to be downloaded from here. The downloaded zip file needs to be placed in the data/ directory.

After downloading the data, run the following command to extract the data:

python3 preprocessing.py 

Analysis:

• analysis.R -- the main script for the analysis of the data.