Different languages and similar encoding efficiency during speech despite differences in Shannon information or speech rate
Christophe Coupé1, Yoon Oh, Dan Dediu1, and François Pellegrino, Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche, Science Advances 04 Sep 2019: Vol. 5, no. 9, eaaw2594
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
Abstract: Language is universal, but it has few indisputably universal characteristics, with cross-linguistic variation being the norm. For example, languages differ greatly in the number of syllables they allow, resulting in large... Читать дальше...