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Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words

We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages and chronological subsets of the data we confirm that two scaling regimes characterize the word frequency distributions...

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Autores principales: Petersen, Alexander M., Tenenbaum, Joel N., Havlin, Shlomo, Stanley, H. Eugene, Perc, Matjaž
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00943