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Schroeder, Manfred

Power laws: from Alvarez to Zipf

This article is a reprint of a chapter from M. Schroeder, Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise (33-38), New York: Freeman 1991, published here with the kind permission of the author and the Freeman Publishing House. The book, very popular among linguists, makes us realize that we are not alone in the universe of sciences but have joined with all other disciplines at least due to the omnipotent power law which, almost everywhere, bears the name of the linguist G.K. Zipf. At the same time it shows us how physicists look at language.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 4, 09/2002
Pages: 39-44

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