Language is a fundamental tool for communication of ideas between people, and so is an essential input into production … common language. Neighboring societies and communities likewise have a strong incentive to utilize a common language, and … indeed there are countless examples of language assimilation, especially in the last one hundred years. Hence, it is puzzling …

Language is a fundamental tool for communication of ideas between people, and so is an essential input into production … common language. Neighboring societies and communities likewise have a strong incentive to utilize a common language, and … indeed there are countless examples of language assimilation, especially in the last one hundred years. Hence, it is puzzling …

cost of communication is endogenized using information theory, all words in an optimal language are equally precise and … continuous approach to characterize the optimal resolution of the trade-off between the precision of a language and the … complexity of the structures it uses, and its dependence on the information the language is used to describe. Notably, when the …

We study a signaling game of common interest in which a stochastic noise is perturbing the communication between an … as interpretations. Shannon entropy measures the noise level and describes to which extent communication is possible. A …

to effective communication of the instructor. That is, the appropriate use of the instructional language by the lecturer …Effective classroom teaching is more often than none, aided by effective classroom communication of the teachers or … universities offer a traditional face-to-face communication format to deliver their courses; few offer them in online communication …