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Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts
It is also argued that gender-inclusive language has negative effects on language learners.
Still no evidence for an effect of the proportion of non-native speakers on language complexity -- A response to Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (2023)
In a recent paper published in the Journal of Language Evolution, Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (https://doi. org/10. 1093/jole/lzad005, KEW) challenge the results presented in one of my papers (Koplenig, Royal Society Open Science, 6, 181274 (2019), https://doi. org/10. 1098/rsos. 181274), in which I tried to show through a series of statistical analyses that large numbers of L2 (second language) speakers do not seem to affect the (grammatical or statistical) complexity of a language.
Both the validity of the cultural tightness index and the association with creativity and order are spurious -- a comment on Jackson et al
It was recently suggested in a study published in Nature Human Behaviour that the historical loosening of American culture was associated with a trade-off between higher creativity and lower order.
Tracking, exploring and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II.
The statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort
Based on a quantitative analysis of more than 1, 500 unique translations of different books of the Bible in more than 1, 100 different languages that are spoken as a native language by approximately 6 billion people (more than 80% of the world population), we present large-scale evidence for a statistical trade-off between the amount of information conveyed by the ordering of words and the amount of information conveyed by internal word structure: languages that rely more strongly on word order information tend to rely less on word structure information and vice versa.
Population size predicts lexical diversity, but so does the mean sea level - why it is important to correctly account for the structure of temporal data
In order to demonstrate why it is important to correctly account for the (serial dependent) structure of temporal data, we document an apparently spectacular relationship between population size and lexical diversity: for five out of seven investigated languages, there is a strong relationship between population size and lexical diversity of the primary language in this country.
A fully data-driven method to identify (correlated) changes in diachronic corpora
In this paper, a method for measuring synchronic corpus (dis-)similarity put forward by Kilgarriff (2001) is adapted and extended to identify trends and correlated changes in diachronic text data, using the Corpus of Historical American English (Davies 2010a) and the Google Ngram Corpora (Michel et al. 2010a).
