Zipf and his heirs

Language Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-25

  Pustet, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diachronic development of language; Discourse analysis; Usage based models of language; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242468556     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(03)00018-4     Document Type: Article

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