HKU-led study tracks 17 languages and finds all languages convey information at similar rates, regardless of whether they are spoken faster or slower

Dr. Christophe Coupe has recently published a paper titled “Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: comparable information rates across the human communicative niche” in Science Advances (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594). His findings have been reported by several media including Mingpao, Economist, and Science Daily. Find out more about his work at

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