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Language complexity trade-offs revisited

In this paper we revisit the results that originally appeared in Coloma (2015) and Coloma (2017), using a newly-assembled database of 50 languages for which we have the same text (which is the fable known as "The North Wind and the Sun"). Most conclusions of the original papers remain the same, especially the ones that signal the existence of language complexity trade-offs. This is particularly clear when we look at partial correlation coefficients between three linguistic ratios (phonemes per syllable, syllables per word, and words per clause), when we use simultaneous-equation regression methods, and when we estimate different versions of Menzerath law that relate phonemes per word and words per clause.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Serie Documentos de Trabajo ; No. 721

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
complexity trade-off, partial correlation
linguistic ratios
simultaneous-equation regression
Menzerath law
The North Wind and the Sun

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Coloma, Germán
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA)
(wo)
Buenos Aires
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
12.07.2024, 13:21 MESZ

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Coloma, Germán
  • Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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