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Text mixing shapes the anatomy of rank-frequency distributions: A modern Zipfian mechanics for natural language
Jake Ryland Williams, James P. Bagrow, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Natural languages are full of rules and exceptions. One of the most famous quantitative rules is Zipf's law which states that the frequency of occurrence of a word is approximately…
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Zipf's law holds for phrases, not words
Jake Ryland Williams, Paul R. Lessard, Suma Desu +4
With Zipf's law being originally and most famously observed for word frequency, it is surprisingly limited in its applicability to human language, holding over no more than three t…