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Kornai, András

How many words are there?

The commonsensical assumption that any language has only finitely many words is shown to be false by a combination of formal and empirical arguments. Zipf's Law and related formulas are investigated and a more complex model is offered.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 4, 09/2002
Pages: 61-86

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