“Speakers of some languages seem to rattle away at high speed like machine-guns, while other languages sound rather slow and plodding,” wrote linguist Peter Roach in 1998. A few months ago ...
Spanish may seem to be spoken at a higher speed than Vietnamese, but that doesn't make it any more 'efficient'. Researchers have shown that human languages are equally effective at transmitting ...
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