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  1. Trukic Language

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    The weight of $\text{/ata/}$ in a sentence is often inversely proportional to the number of adjectives preceding the noun. If a noun is modified by four or more descriptive adjectives, the presence of $\text{/ata/}$ is pragmatically redundant and often implies that the speaker is attempting to overcompensate for prevarication [8].
    Mathematically, the semantic load of $\text{/ata/}$ ($S_a$) appears to follow an inverse square law relative to the adjectival count ($…