Emergence of Zipf's law in the evolution of communication

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Corominas Murtra, Bernat ^a,d   Fortuny, Jordi ^b   Solé, Ricard V ^c,d  

^a Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN LANGUAGE; PROBLEM-BASED; UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; ZIPF'S LAW;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79961075445     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.036115     Document Type: Article

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