"The researchers analyzed bilingual dictionaries between English and more than 600 languages, looking for what they call “lexical elaboration,” in which a language has many words related to a core concept. It’s the same phenomenon that fueled the Inuit debate. But this study brings a twist: rather than the number of words, it measured their proportion, the slice of dictionary real estate taken up by a concept."
This seems inadequate to make the kinds of claims the researchers are quoted as asserting in the article.
This seems inadequate to make the kinds of claims the researchers are quoted as asserting in the article.