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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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 218 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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