POWER LAWS AND OTHER HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS IN LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
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Vol 15
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pp. 1150019
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The paper investigates the quantitative distribution of language types across languages of the world. The studies are based on three large-scale typological data bases: The World Color Survey, the Automated Similarity Judgment Project data base, and the World Atlas of Language Structures. The main finding is that a surprisingly large and varied collection of linguistic typologies show power law behavior. The bulk of the paper deals with the statistical validation of these findings.
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2015 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. e1004204
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2010 ◽
Vol 18
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pp. 1261-1274
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