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Frequency, Informativity and Word Length: Insights from Typologically Diverse Corpora

Zipf’s law of abbreviation, which posits a negative correlation between word frequency and length, is one of the most famous and robust cross-linguistic generalizations. At the same time, it has been shown that contextual informativity (average surprisal given previous context) is more strongly corr...

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Autor principal: Levshina, Natalia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35205578
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24020280