Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal

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dc.contributor.author Bentz, Christian
dc.contributor.author Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon
dc.date.accessioned 2016-03-02T09:22:59Z
dc.date.available 2016-03-02T09:22:59Z
dc.date.issued 2016-03-02
dc.identifier.other 457045051 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10900/68639
dc.identifier.uri http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-686397 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-10057
dc.description.abstract Words that are used more frequently tend to be shorter. This statement is known as Zipf’s law of abbreviation. Here we perform the widest investigation of the presence of the law to date. In a sample of 1262 texts and 986 different languages - about 13% of the world’s language diversity - a negative correlation between word frequency and word length is found in all cases. In line with Zipf’s original proposal, we argue that this universal trend is likely to derive from fundamental principles of information processing and transfer. en
dc.language.iso en de_DE
dc.publisher Universität Tübingen de_DE
dc.rights ubt-podok de_DE
dc.rights.uri http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php?la=de de_DE
dc.rights.uri http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php?la=en en
dc.subject.classification Sprachstatistik , Sprachliche Universalien de_DE
dc.subject.ddc 400 de_DE
dc.subject.other Zipf's law en
dc.subject.other language universals en
dc.subject.other quantitative linguistics en
dc.title Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal en
dc.type ConferencePaper de_DE
utue.publikation.fachbereich Allgemeine u. vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet 5 Philosophische Fakultät de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet 5 Philosophische Fakultät de_DE
utue.opus.portal CPAL de_DE

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