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cs.CL2012★ 31 cited
Distinct word length frequencies: distributions and symbol entropies
Reginald D. Smith
The distribution of frequency counts of distinct words by length in a language's vocabulary will be analyzed using two methods. The first, will look at the empirical distributions…
cs.CL2008★ 17 cited
Investigation of the Zipf-plot of the extinct Meroitic language
Reginald D. Smith
The ancient and extinct language Meroitic is investigated using Zipf's Law. In particular, since Meroitic is still undeciphered, the Zipf law analysis allows us to assess the quali…
cs.CL2008★ 1 cited
Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment
Reginald D. Smith
Meroitic is the still undeciphered language of the ancient civilization of Kush. Over the years, various techniques for decipherment such as finding a bilingual text or cognates fr…