I’m very interested in this topic. I think you point to something important, but the model seems quite incomplete.
First off, the examples are somewhat strange because a text with unknown terms it it isn’t harder to understand, it’s impossible to understand by itself. Using examples where explanations are included may make more sense. I’m also skeptical that some of your hard examples are, in fact, hard rather than meaningless.
If terms are freshly defined, I think there’s more to be said about what makes them difficult.
Second, I think prose is a separate dimension from novelty; I can imagine both sentences with difficult prose but simple words and with simple prose but unknown terms.
I’m very interested in this topic. I think you point to something important, but the model seems quite incomplete.
First off, the examples are somewhat strange because a text with unknown terms it it isn’t harder to understand, it’s impossible to understand by itself. Using examples where explanations are included may make more sense. I’m also skeptical that some of your hard examples are, in fact, hard rather than meaningless.
If terms are freshly defined, I think there’s more to be said about what makes them difficult.
Second, I think prose is a separate dimension from novelty; I can imagine both sentences with difficult prose but simple words and with simple prose but unknown terms.