On the Complexity and Typology of Inflectional Morphological Systems
We quantify the linguistic complexity of different languages’ morphological systems. We verify that there is a statistically significant empirical trade-off between paradigm size and irregularity: A language’s inflectional paradigms may be either large in size or highly irregular, but never both. We...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The MIT Press
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Online Access: | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/tacl_a_00271 |