Adaptive Communication: Languages with More Non-Native Speakers Tend to Have Fewer Word Forms

Explaining the diversity of languages across the world is one of the central aims of typological, historical, and evolutionary linguistics. We consider the effect of language contact-the number of non-native speakers a language has-on the way languages change and evolve. By analysing hundreds of lan...

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Autores principales: Bentz, Christian, Verkerk, Annemarie, Kiela, Douwe, Hill, Felix, Buttery, Paula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26083380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128254

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26083380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128254

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