Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication
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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