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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |