Zipf's Law and Avoidance of Excessive Synonymy

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2007-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/0710.0105v2

Main text in Cognitive Science, 32 (7) 2008, pp. 1075 - 1098; Appendix A TBP separately in J. Quant. Ling.

Computer Science

Computation and Language

47 pages; fixed reference list missing in v.1

Scientific paper

10.1080/03640210802020003

Zipf's law states that if words of language are ranked in the order of decreasing frequency in texts, the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its rank. It is very robust as an experimental observation, but to date it escaped satisfactory theoretical explanation. We suggest that Zipf's law may arise from the evolution of word semantics dominated by expansion of meanings and competition of synonyms.

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