Are some languages better than others?

有些语言比其他语言更好吗？

• 批准号: DP0770115
• 负责人: Prof Robert Dixon
• 金额: $ 25.89万
• 依托单位: James Cook University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2012-12-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0770115
• 关键词: some; languages; better; than; others

It is important for the Australian community - speaking several hundred different indigenous and immigrant languages across the nation - to realise that each language has approximately (but not precisely) the same overall complexity as every other. One may have intricate word structure, while another has short words but elaborate rules for putting words together to make sentences. And, striding above 'political correctness', many people in Australia will be interested to know whether a certain language is a little more efficient than certain other languages for a particular purpose (for example, commercial business).

对于澳大利亚社区来说，重要的是-在全国范围内使用数百种不同的土著和移民语言-认识到每种语言都具有大致（但不完全）相同的整体复杂性。一个可能有复杂的单词结构，而另一个有简短的单词，但复杂的规则，把单词放在一起，使句子。而且，超越“政治正确性”，许多澳大利亚人会有兴趣知道某种语言是否比某些其他语言更有效地用于特定目的（例如，商业业务）。