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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour

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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour

Human languages vary widely in how they encode information within circumscribed semantic domains (for example, time, space, colour, human body parts and activities), but little is known about the global structure of semantic information and nothing about its relation to human communication. We first show that across a sample of ~1,000 languages, there is broad variation in how densely languages encode information into words.

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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour

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