Towards a theory of word length distribution*
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
- Vol. 1 (1) , 98-106
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09296179408590003
Abstract
A method for modeling word length distributions and different models are presented. The compound Poisson and Ord family of distributions seems to be adequate. The relationship of word length to other language phenomena is discussed.Keywords
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