Adaptive Communication: Languages with More Non-Native Speakers Tend to Have Fewer Word Forms.
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1850
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1371/journal.pone.0128254
- Title of journal
- PLoS One
- Article number
- ARTN e0128254
- First page
- e0128254
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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4
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- Citation count
- 17
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper shows how properties of language could evolve due to the competing pressures of human learning capabilities and society (specifically population composition with respect to non-native speakers). A particular contribution of this paper was to investigate this issue at large-scale: analysing hundreds of languages for lexical diversity. The contribution made by this paper to explaining the diversity of languages due to social contact has recently been cited in Cognition.
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- Non-English
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