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This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred yea
Language Complexity
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Authors: Matti Miestamo
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers fr
Linguistic Complexity
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Pages: 272
Authors: Bernd Kortmann
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Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the
The Language Complexity Game
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Eric Sven Ristad
Categories: Computers
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This work elucidates the structure and complexity of human language in terms of the mathematics of information and computation. It strengthens Chomsky's early w
The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity
Language: en
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Authors: Östen Dahl
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This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it