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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
The Language Complexity Game
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Authors: Eric Sven Ristad
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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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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 Formal Complexity of Natural Language
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