Word length, word frequencies and Zipf's law in the Greek language

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 175-185

  Hatzigeorgiu, Nick ^a   Mikros, George ^a   Carayannis, George ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

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EID: 33646185739     PISSN: 09296174     EISSN: 17445035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jqul.8.3.175.4096     Document Type: Article

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