Adaptive Languages : : An Information-Theoretic Account of Linguistic Diversity / / Christian Bentz.
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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Bentz, Christian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Adaptive Languages : An Information-Theoretic Account of Linguistic Diversity / Christian Bentz. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (XV, 218 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 1861-4302 ; 316 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 computational analyses. Different measures of lexical diversity are discussed and tested, and Shannon’s measure of uncertainty – the entropy – is chosen to assess differences in the distributions of words. To further explain this variation, a range of descriptive, explanatory, and grouping factors are considered in a series of statistical models. The first category includes writing systems, word-formation patterns, registers and styles. The second category includes population size, non-native speaker proportions and language status. Grouping factors further elicit whether the results extrapolate across – or are limited to – specific language families and areas. This account marries information-theoretic methods with a complex systems framework, illustrating how languages adapt to the varying needs of their users. It sheds light on the puzzling diversity of human languages in a quantitative, data driven and reproducible manner. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) Language and languages Variation. Linguistic change. Word (Linguistics) Word (Linguistics). LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh Language Change and Evolution. Linguistic Adaptation. Quantitative Linguistic Typology. Word Entropy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1 9783110762488 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018 9783110719550 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton Contemporary 2016-2019 9783110742978 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2018 English 9783110604078 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2018 9783110603170 ZDB-23-DSP EPUB 9783110557770 print 9783110557589 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110560107 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110560107 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110560107/original |
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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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