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Direct linkKurumada, Chigusa; Meylan, Stephan C.; Frank, Michael C. – Cognition, 2013
Word frequencies in natural language follow a highly skewed Zipfian distribution, but the consequences of this distribution for language acquisition are only beginning to be understood. Typically, learning experiments that are meant to simulate language acquisition use uniform word frequency distributions. We examine the effects of Zipfian…
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, Word Frequency, Language Acquisition, Artificial Languages
