3 papers
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
Everybody Likes to Sleep: A Computer-Assisted Comparison of Object Naming Data from 30 Languages
AlžbÄta KuÄerová, 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…
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…