The frequency distribution of words has been a key object of study in statistical linguistics for
the past 70 years. This distribution approximately follows a simple mathematical form known …

Zipf's law is a fundamental paradigm in the statistics of written and spoken natural language
as well as in other communication systems. We raise the question of the elementary units for …

ONEOF THE MOST PUZZLING phenomena in bibliometrics-and, more broadly, in
quantitative linguistics-is Zipf's law. Asonecommentator, the statistician Gustav Herdan, has …

Zipf's law states that the frequency of word tokens in a large corpus of natural language is
inversely proportional to the rank. The law is investigated for two languages English and …

Three models for word frequency distributions, the lognormal law, the generalized inverse
Gauss-Poisson law and the extended generalized Zipf's law are compared and evaluated …

Despite being a paradigm of quantitative linguistics, Zipf's law for words suffers from three
main problems: its formulation is ambiguous, its validity has not been tested rigorously from …

This book is an introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions,
intended for linguists, psycholinguistics, and researchers work ing in the field of quantitative …

We investigate the origin of Zipf's law for words in written texts by means of a stochastic
dynamic model for text generation. The model incorporates both features related to the …

It is well-known that word frequencies arrange themselves according to Zipf's law. However,
little is known about the dependency of the parameters of the law and the complexity of a …

This paper examines data from English, Swedish and German in order to find a theoretical
distribution that describes the observed relation between word length and frequency. In …