On Zipf's law and rank distributions in linguistics and semiotics

Mathematical Notes

Volumn 80, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 679-691

  Maslov, V P ^a   Maslova, T V ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Moscow Economics Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bose Einstein distribution; Frequency dictionary; Linguistic statistics; Occurrence frequency; Real and virtual cardinality of a sign; Semiotic system; Zipf 's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845679965     PISSN: 00014346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11006-006-0189-1     Document Type: Article

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