Complexity trade-offs in the 100-language WALS sample.
In this paper we use data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) for a balanced sample of 100 languages and 60 different features. The values for all those features are interpreted as binary complexity variables, which are subject to statistical correlation analyses (looking for the poss...
| Publicado en: | Language Sciences Vol. 59; pp. 148 - 159 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jan2017
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