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cs.CL2023★ 10 cited
Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited
Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell +3
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potentia…
cs.CL2022★ 3 cited
The optimality of word lengths. Theoretical foundations and an empirical study
Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell +3
Zipf's law of abbreviation, namely the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, has been viewed as a manifestation of compression, i.e. the minimization of the length of form…