# Bentz 2016: Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal

> Christian Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, 2016. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Listed among the sources checked in the bioinformatics and…

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# Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal

Christian Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, 2016. _Proceedings of the Leiden Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics_.

Tests Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of frequent words to be short, across a large sample of languages and argues that it holds universally.

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Bentz, C., & Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2016). Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal. Proceedings of the Leiden Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics. https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/68639
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