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Nov 13 2025SCIENCE

How Do We Measure Language Complexity?

Ever wondered how we figure out how complicated a language is? Researchers have been looking into this by studying eight different ways to measure the complexity of words and their structures in various languages. These methods rely on data from language samples, but they need different levels of de

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Nov 15 2024EDUCATION

Measuring Language Complexity: Do All Methods Point to the Same Thing?

Ever wondered how complex a language can be? Scientists have come up with eight different ways to measure this. Some of these methods need lots of special details from the language examples, while others don’t. These methods seem to agree on some things and disagree on others. When we look at them c

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