Search Results for author: Harry Tily

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Information content versus word length in natural language: A reply to Ferrer-i-Cancho and Moscoso del Prado Martin [arXiv:1209.1751]

no code implementations25 Jul 2013 Steven T. Piantadosi, Harry Tily, Edward Gibson

Recently, Ferrer i Cancho and Moscoso del Prado Martin [arXiv:1209. 1751] argued that an observed linear relationship between word length and average surprisal (Piantadosi, Tily, & Gibson, 2011) is not evidence for communicative efficiency in human language.

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