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Cross-linguistic conditions on word length

Based on a dataset representing close to ¾ of the world’s languages we investigate differences among languages and between items on the Swadesh list with regard to mean word length from a linguistic typological point of view. Mapping the world-wide distribution of word length shows convergence at a...

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Autores principales: Wichmann, Søren, Holman, Eric W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9882889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36706125
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281041