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THE object of this communication is to show that a certain remarkably simple experimental relation governing word-frequencies in language can be explained by a simple model of the process of searching for information, about each word heard or read, in the memory of words employed in the language faculty.
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PARKER-RHODES, A., JOYCE, T. A Theory of Word-Frequency Distribution. Nature 178, 1308 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781308a0
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