by Francis Mollica and Steven T. Piantadosi
Reference:
Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition (Francis Mollica and Steven T. Piantadosi), In Royal Society Open Science, 2019.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{mollica2019information,
title={Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition},
author={Francis Mollica and Steven T. Piantadosi},
journal={Royal Society Open Science},
year={2019},
url={https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181393},
tags={language, informationtheory},
eli5={Some rough estimates show that people know about 1.5 megabytes of information about language.}
}