Adaptive Languages An Information-Theoretic Account of Linguistic Diversity
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2018]
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| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ;
316 |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |