Zipf’s word frequency law in natural language: A critical review and future directions
Zipf’s word frequency law in natural language: A critical review and future directions
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Boston: Springer US
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The frequency distribution of words has been a key object of study in statistical linguistics for the past 70 years. This distribution approximately follows a simple mathematical form known as
Zipf’s law
. This article first shows that human language has a highly complex, reliable structure in the frequency distribution over and above this cl...
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Zipf’s word frequency law in natural language: A critical review and future directions
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1069-9384
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1531-5320
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10.3758/s13423-014-0585-6
