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Beyond the Zipf–Mandelbrot law in quantitative linguistics

✍ Scribed by Marcelo A. Montemurro

Book ID
108449981
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
149 KB
Volume
300
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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