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Language is a complex coding system in the sense that the different levels of linguistic form — such as words, morphemes, phonemes — represent, as a rule, different codes. Thus we have found the conceptual or word code for the description of the manifold to be different in structure from the alphabetic and phonemic code used for the formation of words. The structure of the former may be described in terms of number statistics, that of the latter in terms of combinatorial technique.
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Herdan, G. (1966). Principles of Information Theory. In: The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance. Kommunikation und Kybernetik in Einzeldarstellungen, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88388-0_15
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