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cs.CL2026
How communicatively optimal are exact numeral systems? Once more on lexicon size and morphosyntactic complexity
Chundra Cathcart, Arne Rubehn, Katja Bocklage +7
Recent research argues that exact recursive numeral systems optimize communicative efficiency by balancing a tradeoff between the size of the numeral lexicon and the average morpho…
cs.CL2025
Annotating and Inferring Compositional Structures in Numeral Systems Across Languages
Arne Rubehn, Christoph Rzymski, Luca Ciucci +6
Numeral systems across the world's languages vary in fascinating ways, both regarding their synchronic structure and the diachronic processes that determined how they evolved in th…
cs.CL2025
Everybody Likes to Sleep: A Computer-Assisted Comparison of Object Naming Data from 30 Languages
Alžběta Kučerová, Johann-Mattis List
Object naming - the act of identifying an object with a word or a phrase - is a fundamental skill in interpersonal communication, relevant to many disciplines, such as psycholingui…