What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity

Published:2022-09-22 Issue:0 Volume:0 Page:
ISSN:2199-174X
Container-title:Linguistics Vanguard
language:en
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Author:

Çöltekin Çağrı¹^ORCID,Rama Taraka²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Linguistics , University of Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany

2. Independent researcher , Department of Linguistics , University of North Texas , Denton , TX , USA

Abstract

Abstract We present an analysis of eight measures used for quantifying morphological complexity of natural languages. The measures we study are corpus-based measures of morphological complexity with varying requirements for corpus annotation. We present similarities and differences between these measures visually and through correlation analyses, as well as their relation to the relevant typological variables. Our analysis focuses on whether these ‘measures’ are measures of the same underlying variable, or whether they measure more than one dimension of morphological complexity. Principal component analysis indicates that the first principal component explains 92.62 percent of the variation in eight measures, indicating a strong linear dependence between the complexity measures studied.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0007/pdf

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