| Languages with more second language learners tend to lose nominal case C Bentz, B Winter Quantifying Language Dynamics, 96-124, 2014 | 135 | 2014 |
| Adaptive Communication: Languages with more non-native speakers tend to have fewer word forms C Bentz, A Verkerk, D Kiela, F Hill, P Buttery | 35* | 2015 |
| Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A quantitative study of Old and Modern English parallel texts C Bentz, D Kiela, F Hill, P Buttery Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 10 (2), 175-211, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
| The entropy of words—Learnability and expressivity across more than 1000 languages C Bentz, D Alikaniotis, M Cysouw, R Ferrer-i-Cancho Entropy 19 (6), 275, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| A quantitative empirical analysis of the abstract/concrete distinction F Hill, A Korhonen, C Bentz Cognitive science 38 (1), 162-177, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
| A comparison between morphological complexity measures: typological data vs. language corpora C Bentz, T Ruzsics, A Koplenig, T Samardzic COLING 2016, 142, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal C Bentz, R Ferrer-i-Cancho Universität Tübingen, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Linguistic adaptation at work? The change of word order and case system from Latin to the Romance languages C Bentz, MH Christiansen The Evolution of Language, 26-33, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Compression and the origins of Zipf's law of abbreviation R Ferrer-i-Cancho, C Bentz, C Seguin arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04884, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| The impact of L2 speakers on the evolution of case marking C Bentz, B Winter The Evolution Of Language, 58-63, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| Learning pressures reduce morphological complexity:: Linking corpus, computational and experimental evidence C Bentz, A Berdicevskis 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016 …, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Towards a computational model of grammaticalization and lexical diversity C Bentz, P Buttery Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational …, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Variation in Word Frequency Distributions: Definitions, Measures and Implications for a Corpus-Based Language Typology C Bentz, D Alikaniotis, T Samardžić, P Buttery Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 1-35, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| Crowdsourcing a multi-lingual speech corpus: recording, transcription, and annotation of the CrowdED Corpus A Caines, C Bentz, C Graham, T Polzehl, P Buttery Proceedings of LREC, 2016 | 7* | 2016 |
| Linguistic adaptation: The trade-off between case marking and fixed word orders in Germanic and Romance languages C Bentz, MH Christiansen Eastward flows the great river: Festschrift in honor of Prof. William SY …, 2013 | 6 | 2013 |
| The Low-Complexity-Belt: Evidence For Large-scale Language Contact In Human Prehistory? C Bentz The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference …, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
| The Glottolog data explorer: Mapping the world’s languages A Caines, C Bentz, D Alikaniotis, F Katushemererwe, P Buttery Proceedings of VisLR II: Visualization as Added Value in the Development …, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift C Bentz, D Dediu, A Verkerk, G Jäger Nature Human Behaviour 2 (11), 816, 2018 | 2 | 2018 |
| Modern human origins and dispersal: current state of knowledge and future directions Y Sahle, H Reyes‐Centeno, C Bentz Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 27 (2), 64-67, 2018 | 2 | 2018 |
| The word entropy of natural languages C Bentz, D Alikaniotis arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.06996, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
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