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Christian Bentz

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Publications

20

Citations

988

H-Index

15

Active since

2010

Affiliations

University of Tübingen(Current)

University of Cambridge

University of Zurich

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Philipps University of Marburg

Christian Bentz is an author at University of Tübingen specializing in linguistics, language studies, and applied linguistics.

Top concepts

LanguageLinguisticsSyntaxApplied LinguisticsComputational LinguisticsGrammarEngineeringCorpus LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingSemantics

Publications per year

2010–2023

20

Publications

20

Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case

Christian Bentz, Bodo Winter · Language Dynamics and Change · 2013 · 267 citations

Second Language Learning, Language Contact, Quantitative Evidence +20

Adaptive Communication: Languages with More Non-Native Speakers Tend to Have Fewer Word Forms

Christian Bentz, Annemarie Verkerk, Douwe Kiela et al. · PLoS ONE · 2015 · 121 citations · Full text

Second Language Learning, Language Contact, Multilingualism +21

The Entropy of Words—Learnability and Expressivity across More than 1000 Languages

Christian Bentz, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Michael Cysouw et al. · Entropy · 2017 · 114 citations · Full text

Word Entropy, Engineering, Communication +21

The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift

Christian Bentz, Dan Dediu, Annemarie Verkerk et al. · Nature Human Behaviour · 2018 · 77 citations

Language Evolution, Sociolinguistics, Language Change +10

Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal

Christian Bentz, Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho · QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme · 2016 · 49 citations · Full text

Engineering, Universal Trend, Communication +18

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