Just published: "Human #languages trade off #complexity against #efficiency" in PLOS Complex Systems
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000032
Main findings:
- Languages that are (information-theoretically) more complex are more efficient.
- Larger speaker communities tend to use more efficient languages. 1/
#linguistics
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000032
Main findings:
- Languages that are (information-theoretically) more complex are more efficient.
- Larger speaker communities tend to use more efficient languages. 1/
#linguistics
Human languages trade off complexity against efficiency
Author summary To better understand human language as a complex system, our study leverages the power of computational language models and quantitative statistical analysis.doi.org
