Adaptive Languages

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Languages transmit information. This book harnesses information theory to measure word-level differences in more than 1200 languages. It further models geographic, demographic and social factors to explain the diversity of encoding strategies. The results corroborate the framework of languages as adaptive communication systems shaped by the varying needs of their users.

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Christian Bentz

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Language Change and Evolution Linguistic Adaptation Quantitative Linguistic Typology Word Entropy

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