Deviation of Zipf's and Heaps' Laws in Human Languages with Limited Dictionary Sizes

Zipf's law on word frequency and Heaps' law on the growth of distinct words are observed in Indo-European language family, but it does not hold for languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. These languages consist of characters, and are of very limited dictionary sizes. Extensive experi...

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Main Authors: Lü, Linyuan, Zhang, Zi-Ke, Zhou, Tao
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558701/