The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1562, 2005, Pages 561-565

  Ferrer I Cancho, Ramon ^a,b   Riordan, Oliver ^c   Bollobás, Béla ^c,d  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Human language; Symbolic reference; Syntax; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 18344379331     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2957     Document Type: Article

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