Brian M. Scott wrote:
> What you are miscalling Zipf's law
"Miller and Chomsky (1963) agreed that Zipfs law as well as Mandelbrot's
work, dealing with probabilities and word length in a text [...]"
(
http://htl.linguist.jussieu.fr/leon/leon.pdf)
So, famous Noam Ch. appears to misscall Zipf's law as well and to see its
relation to word length and not (only) to statistic classes. Even if I
disagree with some Chomsky's theses, I am happy that such a famous linguist
is on my side.
Of course, I can multiply such examples but what for? There is minority who
have read Zipf's works and who know what he wrote, and majority who only
imitate that they know and who adhere to only one aspect of Zipf's thoughts.
We have really entered a siding, not related to either IE languages or what
was the original subject. So, EOT.
Grzegorz J.
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