# Niyogi 1995: A Note on Zipf's Law, Natural Languages, and Noncoding DNA regions

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# A Note on Zipf's Law, Natural Languages, and Noncoding DNA regions

Partha Niyogi, Robert C. Berwick, 1995. _arXiv_.

A short note on the use of Zipf's law to argue that noncoding DNA has language-like structure, questioning how much that statistic can show.

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Niyogi, P., & Berwick, R. C. (1995). A Note on Zipf's Law, Natural Languages, and Noncoding DNA regions. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9503012
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