Zipf's Law and the Frequency of Kazak Phonemes in Word Formation

4th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and Technology

Xin, Ruiqing^1 ; Li, Yonghong^1 ; Yu, Hongzhi^1

Key Lab of China's National Linguistic Information Technology, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou

730030, China^1

关键词: Natural fields;    Sample sizes;    Word formations;    Zipf's law;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/317/1/012057/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/317/1/012057

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Zipf's Law is the basis of the principle of Least Effort, and is widely applicable in all natural fields. The occurring frequency of each phoneme in all Kazak words has been counted to testify the application of Zipf's law in Kazak. Due to the limitation of the sample size, deviation is unavoidable, but overall results indicate that the occurring frequency and the reciprocal rank of each phoneme in Kazak words formation are in line with Zipf's distribution.