Brevity law
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brevity-law-180-17671941
title:
Brevity law
text:
In linguistics, the brevity law is a linguistic law that qualitatively states that the more frequently a word is used, the shorter that word tends to be, and vice versa; the less frequently a word is used, the longer it tends to be. This is a statistical regularity that can be found in natural languages and other natural systems and that claims to be a general rule. The brevity law was originally formulated by the linguist George Kingsley Zipf in 1945 as a negative correlation between the freque
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Linguistics law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity_law
date created:
2019-09-15T10:10:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T14:09:39Z
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