by Isabelle Dautriche, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson and Steven T. Piantadosi
Reference:
Wordform similarity increases with semantic similarity: an analysis of 100 languages (Isabelle Dautriche, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson and Steven T. Piantadosi), In Cognitive Science, volume 41, 2017.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{dautriche2016wordform,
title={Wordform similarity increases with semantic similarity: an analysis of 100 languages},
author={Isabelle Dautriche and Kyle Mahowald and Edward Gibson and Steven T. Piantadosi},
journal={Cognitive Science},
year={2017},
volume={41},
issue={8},
pages={2149--2169},
url={http://colala.berkeley.edu/papers/dautriche2016wordform.pdf},
tags={language, psycholinguistics},
eli5={Words that sound similar tend to have similar meanings.}
}