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Publication details [#29880]

Nettle, Daniel. 1995. Segmental inventory size, word length, and communicative efficiency. Linguistics 33 (2) : 359–367.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | function | linguistics | word, production of

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper deals with quantitative-functional linguistics and the synergetic language structure model, with larger segmental inventories that allow shorter average word length and with communicative efficiency.