Quote: Zipf's law--the product of frequency rank and frequency is a constant in natural language discourse; Zipf provided an explanation

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The best known aspect of Zipf's work is … if you tabulate the occurrences of all words … the rank of any given word and its … Further, because of the slope of -1 [on logarithmic scales], the total number of different words in the vocabulary being … rank one). Zipf's Law was observed in such … English, etc.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Zipf's law--the size of a vocabulary in use is the frequency of its most used word

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