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Linguistics and bibliometrics

the regularity that a word's frequency falls in inverse proportion to its rank in a frequency table.

In linguistics and bibliometrics, zipf's law refers to the regularity that a word's frequency falls in inverse proportion to its rank in a frequency table. This meaning comes from Zipf (1949) in Human behavior and the principle of least effort. Here zipf's law is this specific meaning.[1]

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effort2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructsfrequency4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsprinciple of least effort1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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  1. Zipf, G. K. (1949). Human behavior and the principle of least effort. Hafner Pub. Co.. Open Library record

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