Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-04-04
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
6 pages and 7 figures; minor changes in text, added refereces
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00355-7
In this paper the Zipf-Mandelbrot law is revisited in the context of linguistics. Despite its widespread popularity the Zipf--Mandelbrot law can only describe the statistical behaviour of a rather restricted fraction of the total number of words contained in some given corpus. In particular, we focus our attention on the important deviations that become statistically relevant as larger corpora are considered and that ultimately could be understood as salient features of the underlying complex process of language generation. Finally, it is shown that all the different observed regimes can be accurately encompassed within a single mathematical framework recently introduced by C. Tsallis.
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