Zipf's law-another view

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 713-731

  Popescu, Ioan Iovitz ^a   Altmann, Gabriel ^b   Köhler, Reinhard ^a  

^a Universität Bouchum ^*

^b Sprachwissenschaftsliches Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rank frequency distribution; Synthetic language; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952384767     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-009-9234-y     Document Type: Article

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