True reason for Zipf's law in language

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 358, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 545-550

  Dahui, Wang ^a   Menghui, Li ^a   Zengru, Di ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Language; Mechanism; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GLOSSARIES; HUMANITIES COMPUTING; MECHANISMS; WORD PROCESSING;

CHINESE LITERATURE; LANGUAGES; ZIPF'S LAW;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 26444438045     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.04.021     Document Type: Article

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