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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour

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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour

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The authors document wide variation in information density and speed of communication across the world’s languages. They find that higher-density languages communicate information more quickly but with more sustained focus than lower-density languages.
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    Suggestion/idea: you could add the link to the original post.

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      done

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        Thank you!

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