most citedLanguages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words

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physics.soc-ph2012★ 191 cited

Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words

Alexander M. Petersen, Joel N. Tenenbaum, Shlomo Havlin +2

We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages…