LEADER 04152nam 2200685 450 001 9910807031703321 005 20230814223125.0 010 $a9783110560107 010 $a3-11-055777-0 010 $a3-11-056010-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110560107 035 $a(CKB)4100000005043724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5157250 035 $a(DE-B1597)487020 035 $a(OCoLC)1041979271 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110560107 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5157250 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11605151 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005043724 100 $a20180921d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAdaptive languages $ean information-theoretic account of linguistic diversity /$fChristian Bentz 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter Mouton,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) 225 1 $aTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;$vvolume 316 311 1 $a9783110557589 311 1 $a3-11-055758-4 327 $tFrontmatter --$tPreface --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tList of Tables --$tList of Figures --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Languages as Adaptive Systems --$t3. Language Change and Population Structure --$t4. Lexical Diversity across Languages of the World --$t5. Descriptive Factors: Language "Internal" Effects --$t6. Explanatory Factors: Language "External" Effects --$t7. Grouping Factors: Language Families and Areas --$t8. Predicting Lexical Diversity: Statistical Models --$t9. Explaining Diversity: Multiple Factors Interacting --$t10. Further Problems and Caveats --$t11. Conclusions: Universality and Diversity --$t12. Appendix A: Advanced Entropy Estimators --$t13. Appendix B: Multiple Regression Assumptions --$t14. Appendix C: Mixed-effects Regression Assumptions --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aLanguages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding - called lexical diversity. Parallel text corpora of overall more than 1800 texts written in more than 1200 languages are the basis for computational analyses. Different measures of lexical diversity are discussed and tested, and Shannon's measure of uncertainty - the entropy - is chosen to assess differences in the distributions of words. To further explain this variation, a range of descriptive, explanatory, and grouping factors are considered in a series of statistical models. The first category includes writing systems, word-formation patterns, registers and styles. The second category includes population size, non-native speaker proportions and language status. Grouping factors further elicit whether the results extrapolate across - or are limited to - specific language families and areas. This account marries information-theoretic methods with a complex systems framework, illustrating how languages adapt to the varying needs of their users. 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