Quantitative Standards for Absolute Linguistic Universals (bibtex)

by Piantadosi, Steven T. and Gibson, Edward

Reference:

Quantitative Standards for Absolute Linguistic Universals (Piantadosi, Steven T. and Gibson, Edward), In Cognitive Science, volume 38, 2014.

Bibtex Entry:

@article {piantadosi2014quantitative,
author = {Piantadosi, Steven T. and Gibson, Edward},
title = {Quantitative Standards for Absolute Linguistic Universals},
journal = {Cognitive Science},
volume = {38},
number = {4},
issn = {1551-6709},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12088},
doi = {10.1111/cogs.12088},
pages = {736--756},
keywords = {Linguistic universals, Typology, Statistical methods, Statistical model},
year = {2014},
url={http://colala.berkeley.edu/papers/piantadosi2014quantitative.pdf},
  tags={language, modeling},
  eli5={You can get statistical evidence that certain features of language are impossible, but it probably takes more languages than actually exist.}
}