On the law of Zipf-Mandelbrot for multi-
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Egghe, L.
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This article studies the probabilities of the occurrence of multi-word (m-word) phrases (m β«Ψβ¬ 2,3,. . .) in relation to the probabilities of occurrence of the single words. It is well known that, in the latter case, the law of Zipf is valid (i.e., a power law). We prove that in the case of m-word p