Two regimes in the frequency of words and the origins of complex lexicons: Zipf's law revisited

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 165-173

  Cancho, Ramon Ferrer I ^a   Solé, Ricard V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 0013122906     PISSN: 09296174     EISSN: 17445035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jqul.8.3.165.4101     Document Type: Review

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