%0 Journal Article %1 journals/jql/CanchoS01 %A i Cancho, Ramon Ferrer %A Solé, Ricard V. %D 2001 %J Journal of Quantitative Linguistics %K complex frequency origins regimes words %N 3 %P 165-173 %T Two Regimes in the Frequency of Words and the Origins of Complex Lexicons: Zipf's Law Revisited. %U http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/jql/jql8.html#CanchoS01 %V 8 %X Zipf’s law states that the frequency of a word is a power function of its rank. The exponent of the power is usually accepted to be close to (-)1. Great deviations between the predicted and real number of different words of a text, disagreements between the predicted and real exponent of the probability density function and statistics on a big corpus, make evident that word frequency as a function of the rank follows two different exponents, ˜(-)1 for the first regime and ˜(-)2 for the second. The implications of the change in exponents for the metrics of texts and for the origins of complex lexicons are analyzed.

@article{journals/jql/CanchoS01, abstract = {Zipf’s law states that the frequency of a word is a power function of its rank. The exponent of the power is usually accepted to be close to (-)1. Great deviations between the predicted and real number of different words of a text, disagreements between the predicted and real exponent of the probability density function and statistics on a big corpus, make evident that word frequency as a function of the rank follows two different exponents, ˜(-)1 for the first regime and ˜(-)2 for the second. The implications of the change in exponents for the metrics of texts and for the origins of complex lexicons are analyzed.}, added-at = {2013-11-20T09:58:34.000+0100}, author = {i Cancho, Ramon Ferrer and Solé, Ricard V.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24de686b11a700bd0cd92c1d733e0ae13/giacomo.fiumara}, ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jqul.8.3.165.4101}, interhash = {5861a32a5a0df17703a9b5df3b8d38cd}, intrahash = {4de686b11a700bd0cd92c1d733e0ae13}, journal = {Journal of Quantitative Linguistics}, keywords = {complex frequency origins regimes words}, number = 3, pages = {165-173}, timestamp = {2013-11-20T13:19:37.000+0100}, title = {Two Regimes in the Frequency of Words and the Origins of Complex Lexicons: Zipf's Law Revisited.}, url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/jql/jql8.html#CanchoS01}, volume = 8, year = 2001 }