2022年4月21日 · Here is my answer: the chart below shows the “effective” number of characters in a tweet in a particular language, indexing English to 280 characters, and scaling that number up or down based...

2019年9月4日 · In actuality, languages from English to Japanese convey information at 39 bits per second on average. The nature of the language, like English with its 7,000 distinct syllables versus the few hundred in Japanese, don't make much difference.

2015年6月9日 · Next, come up with some value for how much meaning is packed into each syllable, which will give you an average information density per syllable. Finally, use those values to derive an "information rate."

2019年9月4日 · Scientists started with written texts from 17 languages, including English, Italian, Japanese, and Vietnamese. They calculated the information density of each language in bits—the same unit that describes how quickly your cellphone, laptop, or …

2023年1月22日 · In short, this chart shows what happens if you downsample an image with the same content step by step, and calculate how much information is still left in the image. The peak for each language is each language’s maximum information density per square pixel.

Assuming the syllables in an analytic language and a agglutinative/polysynthetic language carry the same amount of information on average, and that they are spoken at the same rate (in syllables per unit time), a single ten-syllable word will convey the same amount of information as a ten single-syllable word sentence in the same amount of time.

2020年10月27日 · New research suggests that different tongues, regardless of speed, transmit information at roughly the same rate WERE THIS article written in Japanese, it would be longer. A Thai translation, meanwhile, would be shorter. And yet those reading it aloud, in either language or in its original English, would finish at roughly the same time.

2019年9月5日 · The study, titled "Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: comparable information rates across the human communicative niche," conducted by an international and interdisciplinary team...

2024年10月29日 · Discover the fascinating insight into syllable rate and information rate—two linguistic measures that reveal so much about how languages communicate. Syllable rate, expressed in syllables per second, shows the natural pace of speech, while information rate, measured in bits per second, indicates how effectively information is conveyed. For ...

2008年4月12日 · In that presentation, the pictured relationship between average number of syllables per word (ASW) and syllabic entropy is fairly convincing: The languages are French (FR), English (EN), Mandarin (MA), German (GE), Spanish (SP), Italian (IT), and Japanese (JA).