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Christian Bentz

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Publications

22

Citations

1K

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16

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 language studies, linguistics, and computational linguistics.

Publications per year

2010–2023

22

Publications

22

Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case

Christian Bentz, Bodo Winter · Language Dynamics and Change · 2013 · 268 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Second Language Studies +16

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 · 125 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics +17

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

Christian Bentz, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Michael Cysouw et al. · Entropy · 2017 · 118 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Computer Science, Linguistics +11

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 · 79 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics +14

Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal

Christian Bentz, Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho · UPCommons institutional repository (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) · 2016 · 51 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Computer Science, Linguistics +7

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