Table 1.

Summary of estimated bounds across levels of linguistic analysis.

section	domain	lower bound	best guess	upper bound
2.1	phonemes	375	750	1500
2.2	phonemic wordforms	200 000	400 000	640 000
2.3	lexical semantics	553 809	12 000 000	40 000 000
2.4	word frequency	40 000	80 000	120 000
2.5	syntax	134	697	1394
	total (bits)	794 318	12 481 447	40 762 894
	total per day (bits)a	121	1900	6204

^aFor this value, we assume language is learned in 18 years of 365 days.