Reply to Reilly and Kean: Clarifications on word length and information content

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Piantadosi, Steven T ^a   Tily, Harry ^a   Gibson, Edward ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; LETTER; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957734921     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103550108     Document Type: Letter

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