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Phonotactic Complexity and Its Trade-offs

Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, Ryan Cotterell, 2020. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Measures how complex a language's sound sequences are in bits per phoneme and, across 106 languages, finds that languages with more complex phonotactics tend to have shorter words.

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Pimentel, T., Roark, B., & Cotterell, R. (2020). Phonotactic Complexity and Its Trade-offs. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00296
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