Talk:Brevity law
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Myopic Bookworm in topic Date of Zipf's work?
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Date of Zipf's work?
editThis claims that Zipf's law is based on work on American English in 1945, but he seems to have proposed it in Psychobiology of Language (1935) based on a German dataset. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-4068-9_13 Myopic Bookworm (talk) 09:41, 21 September 2020 (UTC)