Selected studies of the principle of relative frequency in language
By: by George Kingsley Zipf ...
Publisher: Harvard university press
Published: 1932
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Plautus, Titus Maccius; Chinese language -- Dictionaries; Chinese language -- Phonetics; Language -- Comparative philology; Semantics
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Relative frequency in respect to Chinese phonology.-  pt. II. Relative frequency, abbreviation, and semantic change.-  Appendix.  A. Frequency of occurrence of words in Plautus' Aulularia, Mostellaria, Pseudolus, and Trinummus.  B. Phonetic transcriptions of 20,000 syllables of the dialect of modern Peking.  C. Frequency of occurrence of words in the 20,000 syllables of appendix B.  D. Frequency of occurrence of syllables in the 20,000 syllables of appendix B.