Evolution of the most common english words and phrases over the centuries

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 77, 2012, Pages 3323-3328

  Perc, Matjaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

English language; Preferential attachment; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

WORLD WIDE WEB;

ENGLISH LANGUAGES; ENGLISH WORD; LIFE SPAN; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WRITTEN TEXTS; ZIPF'S LAW;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ART; ARTICLE; BOOK; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WRITING;

EID: 84868592433     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0491     Document Type: Article

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