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Understanding Zipf's law of word frequencies through sample-space collapse in sentence formation

Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel, Bo Liu +1

The formation of sentences is a highly structured and history-dependent process. The probability of using a specific word in a sentence strongly depends on the 'history' of word-us…