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. 2017 Sep 18;114(40):10785–10790. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619666114

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Fig. 4. — Color chips rank-ordered by their average surprisal (computed using Eq. 1) for all languages in the WCS, and the three languages tested here. Each row shows data for a given language, and the languages are ordered according to their overall communication efficiency (Eq. 2).