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relative frequency.’ In other words, short words tend to be common, long words
tend to be rare. This law is perhaps better known than the first law.
Zipf also pointed out that the more frequent a word is, the more meanings it
is likely to have. He calls this the ‘law of meaning’.
Zipf (1949) relates all these laws to the principle of least effort.
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