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Languages with more speakers tend to be harder to (machine-)learn
- jruohonen 3y ago"In this article, we examined the assumption that all languages are equally difficult to learn by using LMs as computational working models for empirically studying various aspects of human language. In summary, we find that there is evidence for an effect of speaker population size on learning difficulty that questions the above assumption." "By using a variety of methods and analyses, we have increased the reliability and generalisability of our primary finding, which challenges our initial expectations: contrary to what we expected, our research reveals a positive statistical association between population size and learning difficulty, suggesting that languages with more speakers tend to be harder to learn." I was asking about something like this the other day, but I have to read the whole paper to see whether I understand any of it.