Adaptive Languages : an Information-Theoretic Account of Linguistic Diversity /

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Languages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding - called lexical diversity. Parallel text corpora of overall more than 1800 texts written in more than 1200 languages are the basis for computati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bentz, Christian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 316.
Temas:
Language and languages > Variation.
Linguistic change.
Word (Linguistics)
Variation (Linguistique)
Changement linguistique.
Mot (Linguistique)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reference.
Canvi lingüístic.
Paraula (Lingüística)
Llenguatge i llengües > Variació.
Language Change and Evolution.
Linguistic Adaptation.
Quantitative Linguistic Typology.
Word Entropy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Languages as Adaptive Systems
  • 3. Language Change and Population Structure
  • 4. Lexical Diversity across Languages of the World
  • 5. Descriptive Factors: Language "Internal" Effects
  • 6. Explanatory Factors: Language "External" Effects
  • 7. Grouping Factors: Language Families and Areas
  • 8. Predicting Lexical Diversity: Statistical Models
  • 9. Explaining Diversity: Multiple Factors Interacting
  • 10. Further Problems and Caveats
  • 11. Conclusions: Universality and Diversity
  • 12. Appendix A: Advanced Entropy Estimators
  • 13. Appendix B: Multiple Regression Assumptions
  • 14. Appendix C: Mixed-effects Regression Assumptions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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