Word Forms Are Structured for Efficient Use
Zipf famously stated that, if natural language lexicons are structured for efficient communication, the words that are used the most frequently should require the least effort. This observation explains the famous finding that the most frequent words in a language tend to be short. A related predict...
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
2018
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