Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication.
The linguist George Kingsley Zipf made a now classic observation about the relationship between a word's length and its frequency; the more frequent a word is, the shorter it tends to be. He claimed that this "Law of Abbreviation" is a universal structural property of language. The Law of Abbreviati...
| Publicado en: | Cognition Vol. 165; pp. 45 - 53 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Aug2017
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