Statistical models for word frequency distributions: A linguistic evaluation

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 1992, Pages 347-363

  Baayen, Harald ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

extended generalized Zipf's law; generalized inverse Gauss Poisson; goodness of fit; lognormal; morphological productivity; vocabulary richness; word frequency distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542647844     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00136980     Document Type: Article

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