The Brevity Law as a Scaling Law, and a Possible Origin of Zipf’s Law for Word Frequencies
An important body of quantitative linguistics is constituted by a series of statistical laws about language usage. Despite the importance of these linguistic laws, some of them are poorly formulated, and, more importantly, there is no unified framework that encompasses all them. This paper presents...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-02-01
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Series: | Entropy |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/2/224 |