Word frequency distributions and lexical semantics

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 281-291

  Harald Baayen, R ^a,b   Lieber, Rochelle ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodal; Density estimation; Lexical conceptual structure; Lognormality; Word frequency distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043082938     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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