The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity
The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more complex in one particular domain, it will be simpler in another different domain. In this paper, we use data from WALS to test the existence of a trade-off between two...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2024-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Language Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/flang.2024.1340493/full |