Power laws and other heavy-tailed distributions in linguistic typology

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  Jäger, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linguistics; power laws; typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861910362     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525911500196     Document Type: Article

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