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Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts
Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Samira Ochs, Alexander Koplenig +2
Research on gender and language is tightly knitted to social debates on gender equality and non-discriminatory language use. Psycholinguistic scholars have made significant contrib…
Still no evidence for an effect of the proportion of non-native speakers on language complexity -- A response to Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (2023)
Alexander Koplenig
In a recent paper published in the Journal of Language Evolution, Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad005, KEW) challenge the results presented in one of…
Both the validity of the cultural tightness index and the association with creativity and order are spurious -- a comment on Jackson et al
Alexander Koplenig, Sascha Wolfer
It was recently suggested in a study published in Nature Human Behaviour that the historical loosening of American culture was associated with a trade-off between higher creativity…
No evidence for an association between gender equality and pathogen prevalence -- a comment on Varnum and Grossmann 2017
Alexander Koplenig, Sascha Wolfer
In a previous study published in Nature Human Behaviour, Varnum and Grossmann claim that reductions in gender inequality are linked to reductions in pathogen prevalence in the Unit…
Tracking, exploring and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer
Sascha Wolfer, Alexander Koplenig, Frank Michaelis +1
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II. It does not come as a surprise that it is also having an impact on language as our…
The statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort
Alexander Koplenig, Peter Meyer, Sascha Wolfer +1
Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed…
Population size predicts lexical diversity, but so does the mean sea level - why it is important to correctly account for the structure of temporal data
Alexander Koplenig, Carolin Mueller-Spitzer
In order to demonstrate why it is important to correctly account for the (serial dependent) structure of temporal data, we document an apparently spectacular relationship between p…
A fully data-driven method to identify (correlated) changes in diachronic corpora
Alexander Koplenig
In this paper, a method for measuring synchronic corpus (dis-)similarity put forward by Kilgarriff (2001) is adapted and extended to identify trends and correlated changes in diach…
Autocorrelated errors explain the apparent relationship between disapproval of the US Congress and prosocial language
Alexander Koplenig
Recently, it has been claimed by Frimer et al. (2015) that there is a linear relationship between the level of prosocial language and the level of public disapproval of US Congress…