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Adaptive languages: an information-theoretic account of linguistic diversity
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036a	XA-DE
037b	eng
077a	506565394 Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe): ‡Bentz, Christian: Adaptive languages
087q	978-3-11-055758-9
100	Bentz, Christian ¬[VerfasserIn]¬
331	Adaptive languages
335	an information-theoretic account of linguistic diversity
410	Berlin ; Boston
412	De Gruyter Mouton
425	[2018]
425a	2018
433	1 Online-Ressource
451	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 316
454	Trends in linguistics / Studies and monographs
455	volume 316
521	$tFrontmatter -- -- 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
527	Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe): ‡Bentz, Christian: Adaptive languages
540a	ISBN 978-3-11-055777-0 Epub
540a	ISBN 978-3-11-056010-7 PDF
651	$bMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
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750	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.
902s	209193069 Linguistik
902s	208909834 Entropie
902s	208968555 Informationstheorie
012	507052331
081	Bentz, Christian: Adaptive languages
100	E-Book De Gruyter
125a	Elektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz
655e	$uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110560107