Zipf’s law holds for phrases, not words
With Zipf’s law being originally and most famously observed for word frequency, it is surprisingly limited in its applicability to human language, holding over no more than three to four orders of magnitude before hitting a clear break in scaling. Here, building on the simple observation that phrase...
Main Authors: | Ryland Williams, Jake, Lessard, Paul R., Desu, Suma, Clark, Eric M., Bagrow, James P., Danforth, Christopher M., Sheridan Dodds, Peter |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Computational Engineering |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Nature Publishing Group
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98434 |
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