New Work on Word Length and Information Content

[Everett, Daniel]

Steve Piantadosi's work  is relevant to the readers of this list. (He is also part of a team beginning work on testing a number of claims regarding Piraha).

Dan Everett


http://web.mit.edu/
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/words-count-0210.html

There is also an article in Nature News on this work:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110124/full/news.2011.40.html
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