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Unzipping Zipf’s law

In spite of decades of theorizing, the origins of Zipf’s law remain elusive. I propose that a Zipfian distribution straightforwardly follows from the interaction of syntax (word classes differing in class size) and semantics (words having to be sufficiently specific to be distinctive and sufficientl...

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Autor principal: Lestrade, Sander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28792963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181987