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Köhler, Reinhard

Power law models in linguistics: Hungarian

First, the status of Zipf(-Menzerath)'s Law and its criticisms are discussed, and the application of power law models, particularly in linguistics, is supported from a general point of view. The following sections, empirical studies on dependencies are conducted which test the Zipf-Mandelbrot Law, other power law models (Menzerath-Altmann's Law, the length-frequency dependency), and the word length distribution on data from Hungarian (a text and a dictionary).

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 5, 12/2002
Pages: 51-61

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