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Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: How population size affects language

Languages with many speakers tend to be structurally simple while small communities sometimes develop languages with great structural complexity. Paradoxically, the opposite pattern appears to be observed for non-structural properties of language such as vocabulary size. These apparently opposite pa...

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Autores principales: Reali, Florencia, Chater, Nick, Christiansen, Morten H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5805949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29367397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2586