Abstract
Recently I have been intrigued by the reappearance of an old ftiend, George Kingsley Zipf, in a number of not entirely expected places. The law named for him is ubiquitous, but Zipf did not actually discover the law so much as provide a plausible explanation. Others have proposed modifications to Zipfs Law, and closer examination uncovers systematic deviations from its normative form. We demonstrate how Zipfs analysis can be extended to include some of these phenomena.
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Powers, D. M. W. (1998). Applications and Explanations of Zipf’s Law. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998 (pp. 151–160). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1603899.1603924
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