Analysis of Languages with Extreme Values in the Indices of Relativity, Density and Informative Efficiency
The Morphological and Genetic Typology and the Complexity of the Phonetic-Phonological System in the Study of the Number and Length of Words and Phonemes
Keywords:
Index of informative relativity, index of informative density, lexical informative efficiency index, phonic informative efficiency index, tokensAbstract
This article analyses the mathematical correlations between languages which present extreme values in the so-called ‘index of informative relativity’, ‘index of informative density’, ‘lexical informative efficiency index’, and ‘phonic informative efficiency index’. These indices express the coefficients resulting from dividing the number of ‘tokens’ and number of ‘token conventional phonic units’, used to express the same information. In the present work we focus very especially on those languages that show extreme values in aforesaid indices and we analyze how the morphological typology or the phonetic-phonological characteristics of the languages affect issues such as the total number of words and phonemes, length of words or economy of language.
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