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مفاضلة مفاجأة مدة عبر الإنترنت وداخل لغات العالم
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بينما توجد عشرات من اللغات الطبيعية، ولكل منها ميزاتها الفريدة والخصوصيات، فإنهم جميعهم يشتركون موضوع موحد: تمكين التواصل البشري.قد نتوقع ذلك بشكل معقول أن أشكال الإدراك البشرية كيف تتطور هذه اللغات وتستخدم.على افتراض أن القدرة على معالجة المعلومات ثابتة تقريبا عبر السكان البشري، نتوقع أن تنظر إلى مفاضلة مفاجأة مدةنقوم بتحليل هذه المفاضلة باستخدام Corpus من 600 لغة، وبعد التحكم في العديد من الارتباطات المحتملة، نجد أدلة داعمة قوية في كلا الإعدادتين.على وجه التحديد، نجد أنه في المتوسط، يتم إنتاج الهواتف أسرع بلغات حيث تكون أقل إثارة للدهشة والعكس.علاوة على ذلك، نؤكد أن الهواتف الأكثر إثارة للدهشة هي أطول، في المتوسط، في 319 لغة من أصل 600. وبالتالي نستنتج أن هناك أدلة قوية على مفاضلة مفاجأة مدة العمل في العملية، سواء بلغت لغات العالم وداخلها.
While there exist scores of natural languages, each with its unique features and idiosyncrasies, they all share a unifying theme: enabling human communication. We may thus reasonably predict that human cognition shapes how these languages evolve and are used. Assuming that the capacity to process information is roughly constant across human populations, we expect a surprisal--duration trade-off to arise both across and within languages. We analyse this trade-off using a corpus of 600 languages and, after controlling for several potential confounds, we find strong supporting evidence in both settings. Specifically, we find that, on average, phones are produced faster in languages where they are less surprising, and vice versa. Further, we confirm that more surprising phones are longer, on average, in 319 languages out of the 600. We thus conclude that there is strong evidence of a surprisal--duration trade-off in operation, both across and within the world's languages.
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