arXiv Open Access 2018

Comparing morphological complexity of Spanish, Otomi and Nahuatl

Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques Victor Mijangos

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We use two small parallel corpora for comparing the morphological complexity of Spanish, Otomi and Nahuatl. These are languages that belong to different linguistic families, the latter are low-resourced. We take into account two quantitative criteria, on one hand the distribution of types over tokens in a corpus, on the other, perplexity and entropy as indicators of word structure predictability. We show that a language can be complex in terms of how many different morphological word forms can produce, however, it may be less complex in terms of predictability of its internal structure of words.

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cs.CL

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Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques

Victor Mijangos

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Gutierrez-Vasques, X., Mijangos, V. (2018). Comparing morphological complexity of Spanish, Otomi and Nahuatl. https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04314

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Tahun Terbit: 2018
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓