Zipf's law in phonograms and Weibull distribution in ideograms: Comparison of English with Japanese

BioSystems

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-139

  Nabeshima, Terutaka ^a   Gunji, Yukio Pegio ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ideogram; Phonogram; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

WEIBULL THEORY;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0842328616     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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