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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Main Authors: Álvaro Corral, Isabel Serra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/2/224