complexity measures

[J. Kanze]

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv at wxs.nl> writes:
 
|>  Can we get a more objective measure of "language complexity"?
 
Globally, I don't think so.  It's a problem of comparing apples to
oranges.  Is a language with few phonemes but a complex morphology more
complex or less complex than a language with a complex phonemic system
but simple morphology?
 
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