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A simultaneous-equation regression model of language complexity trade-offs

In this paper we develop a statistical model of language complexity trade-offs using four typological measures (related to phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon). The data come from the 100-language sample that appears in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), and the trade-offs are calculated using different types of correlation coefficients. All those coefficients are statistically insignificant when they are computed using a standard (product-moment) methodology, but they become significant when we use simultaneous-equation regression methods, especially the ones based on seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) and three-stage least squares (3SLS). These results are related to ideas suggested in the theoretical literature, especially in the one about language as a complex adaptive system.

Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-987-3940-08-8

Erschienen in
Series: Serie Documentos de Trabajo ; No. 597

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Linguistik
Mehrgleichungsmodell
Korrelation
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Coloma, Germán
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA)
(wo)
Buenos Aires
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
12.07.2024, 13:22 MESZ

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

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

Entstanden

  • 2016

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