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. 2023 Aug 28;120(36):e2215710120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2215710120

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Fig. 6. — Comparisons between three types of simulated lexicons and the real lexicon. (A) Ratio (in percentage) between the number of minimal pairs observed in Basic (green), Hierarchical (yellow) and Hierarchical+Transitional (purple) lexicons and that observed in the real lexicon. The ratio is 100% when the number of minimal pairs observed in a simulated lexicon equals to the number observed in the real lexicon of that language. (B) Comparison between the level of onset biases in functional load (in percentage) observed in the real lexicon (red circle) and those in the Basic (green), Hierachical (H) and Hierarchical+Transitional lexicons (purple).