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Roelcke, Thorsten

Efficiency of communication. A new concept of language economy

George Kingsley Zipf is known not only as the "father" of language statistics or quantitative linguistics in general, but also as one of the first who discussed the phenomenon of linguistic economy in detail. The following discussion in linguistics and communication sciences shows a wide spread of more or less scientific grounded concepts. This great conceptual diversity however disturbs the scientific discussion further on. Hence in the following contribution a new concept of language economy that fulfils holistic (and atomistic) requirements will be shown.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 4, 09/2002
Pages: 27-38

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