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Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche
- View ORCID ProfileChristophe Coupé1,2,*,
- View ORCID ProfileYoon Mi Oh3,4,*,
- View ORCID ProfileDan Dediu1,5 and
- View ORCID ProfileFrançois Pellegrino1,†
- 1Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage UMR5596, CNRS, University of Lyon, 14 Avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France.
- 2Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
- 3New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
- 4Department of French Language and Literature, Ajou University, Suwon, 16499 Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
- 5Collegium de Lyon, University of Lyon, 24 rue Baldassini, 69007 Lyon, France.
- ↵†Corresponding author. Email: francois.pellegrino{at}univ-lyon2.fr
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Science Advances 04 Sep 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 9, eaaw2594
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
Vol. 5, no. 9, eaaw2594
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
Christophe Coupé
1Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage UMR5596, CNRS, University of Lyon, 14 Avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France.
2Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
Yoon Mi Oh
3New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
4Department of French Language and Literature, Ajou University, Suwon, 16499 Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
Dan Dediu
1Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage UMR5596, CNRS, University of Lyon, 14 Avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France.
5Collegium de Lyon, University of Lyon, 24 rue Baldassini, 69007 Lyon, France.
François Pellegrino
1Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage UMR5596, CNRS, University of Lyon, 14 Avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France.