language complexity

Linguistic correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis
Traditionally, many researchers have supported a uniformitarian view whereby all languages are of roughly equal complexity, facilitated …
Sihan Chen, David Gil, Sergey Gaponov, Jana Reifegerste, Tessa Yuditha, Tatiana Tatarinova, Ljiljana Progovac, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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More complex societies have more complex kinship lexicons
Increasing evidence suggests that language complexity is sensitive to sociopolitical factors.While most quantitative research has …
Sihan Chen, David Gil, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity
The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more …
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Sihan Chen, David Gil
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Cognitive and Genetic Correlates of a Single Macro-Parameter of Crosslinguistic Variations
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Candy Cachuana, Sihan Chen, David Gil, Ljiljana Progovac, Jana Reifegeste, Tatiana Tatarinova
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