Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!
1
Published in 2017 at "Cognition"
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.001
Abstract: 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…
read more here.
Keywords:
least effort;
language;
law abbreviation;
principle least ... See more keywords