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A cultural evolutionary model for the law of abbreviation
2024-12-09
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<p>Efficiency principles are increasingly called upon to study features of human language and communication. Zipf’s law of abbreviation is widely seen as a classic instance of a linguistic pattern brought about by language users’ search for efficient communication. The “law”—a recurrent correlation between the frequency of words and their brevity—is a near-universal principle of communication, having been found in...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 11ee7658-50b9-5f0f-b115-6cf07a33d7ce
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/sjtkq