New paper alert 🚨
We analyzed 1B+ words to study the influence of culture and development on language use patterns.
An interesting nugget: Rice farming history explained 2x variance of social & cognitive words usage as economic development or urbanization!
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New study with a billion words! Here’s the 60-second version. ⏲️ nature.com/articles/s4159… @NaturePortfolio @sharathguntuku @UChicago





