Across roughly 1,000 languages, those that pack more information into each word tend to move meaning faster but cover less ground in conversation — suggesting the structure of a language changes the shape of what its speakers discuss
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A 998-language analysis linked denser word-level encoding with faster matched speech and narrower semantic paths in a 14-language conversation subset, without establishing causation.
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