{"id":629667,"date":"2019-09-05T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629667"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:02:24","slug":"faster-and-slower-languages-convey-information-at-similar-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629667","title":{"rendered":"Faster and slower languages convey information at similar rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are some languages spoken faster than others? Are some structurally more complex? And, finally, are some better at transmitting information? These age\u2010old questions might have received a surprising answer in a new article published in the September 4th edition of Science Advances. The study, titled &#8220;Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: comparable information rates across the human communicative niche,&#8221; conducted by an international and interdisciplinary team involving scientists at the Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage\/CNRS\/Universit\u00e9 Lyon 2 and Collegium de Lyon in Lyon, France, The University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Ajou University in Suwon, South Korea, and The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, reports the results of an information\u2010theoretical analysis of 17 languages.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-faster-slower-languages-convey-similar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Faster and slower languages convey information at similar rates<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are some languages spoken faster than others? Are some structurally more complex? And, finally, are some better at transmitting information? These age\u2010old questions might have received a surprising answer in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}