Explaining Zipf's law via a mental lexicon
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Explaining Zipf's Law via Mental Lexicon
Zipf's law is the major regularity of statistical linguistics that has served as a prototype for rank-frequency relations and scaling laws in natural sciences. Here we show that Zipf's law-together with its applicability for a single text and its generalizations to high and low frequencies including hapax legomena-can be derived from assuming that the words are drawn into the text with random p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.062804