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I think it was 39 bits per second of information. Regardless of language. Languages with denser information are spoken slower. Vice versa. https://www.science
by treeman79 5y ago
I think it was 39 bits per second of information. Regardless of language.
Languages with denser information are spoken slower. Vice versa.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
- rich_sasha 5y agoI find French full of nuance (=bits of information) and habitually spoken very fast.
- ineedasername 5y agoThanks for the reference to back up my recollection of a lecture, nice to know my memory (and professor) are correct. It was (and is) fascinating to me that there are these sorts of constants.