How communicatively optimal are exact numeral systems? Once more on lexicon size and morphosyntactic complexity

Research Summary

Contribution Summary

• Recent research argues that exact recursive numeral systems optimize communicative efficiency by balancing a tradeoff between the size of the numeral lexicon and the average morphosyntactic complexity (roughly length in morphemes) of numera
• We argue that previous studies have not characterized the data in a fashion that accounts for the degree of complexity languages display.
• Using data from 52 genetically diverse languages and an annotation scheme distinguishing between predictable and unpredictable allomorphy (formal variation), we show that many of the world's languages are decisively less efficient than one

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