The Distribution of Phoneme Frequencies across the World's Languages: Macroscopic and Microscopic Information-Theoretic Models

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Main Authors:	Martín, Fermín Moscoso del Prado, Salhan, Suchir
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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