Comparison of equations describing the ranked frequency distributions of graphemes and phonemes

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 106-112

  Martindale, Colin ^a   Gusein Zade, S M ^b   McKenzie, Dean ^c   Borodovsky, Mark Yu ^d  

^a University of Maine ^*  (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 34248785069     PISSN: 09296174     EISSN: 17445035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09296179608599620     Document Type: Article

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