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Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potential for being exceptionless or with a number of exceptions that is vanishingly small compared to the number of languages on Earth.
The distribution of syntactic dependency distances
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be represented as a graph where vertices are words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies between them.
The optimality of word lengths. Theoretical foundations and an empirical study
Zipf's law of abbreviation, namely the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, has been viewed as a manifestation of compression, i. e. the minimization of the length of forms -- a universal principle of natural communication.
