Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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Dinoj Surendran
2006
Quantifying the Functional Load of Phonemic Oppositions, Distinctive Features, and SuprasegmentalsPDF
Competing Models of Language Change: Evolution and Beyond, 2006
Languages convey information using several methods, and rely to different extents on different methods. The amount of reliance of a language on a method is termed the 'functional load'of the method in the language. The term goes back to early Prague School ...