George Kingsley Zipf
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American statistician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Kingsley Zipf , was an American linguist and philologist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages. Zipf earned his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, although he also studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. He was chairman of the German department and university lecturer at Harvard University. He worked with Chinese and demographics, and much of his effort can explain properties of the Internet, distribution of income within nations, and many other collections of data.
George Kingsley Zipf's Published Works
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Published Works
- Human behavior and the principle of least effort (1949) (7372)
- Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology (1950) (1881)
- The P 1 P 2 D Hypothesis: On the Intercity Movement of Persons (1946) (802)
- The Psycho-Biology of Language (1936) (782)
- The Psychobiology of Language (399)
- Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology. (1949) (297)
- Relative Frequency as a Determinant of Phonetic Change (1930) (291)
- The meaning-frequency relationship of words. (1945) (195)
- National Unity and Disunity (1943) (118)
- National Unity and Disunity, The Nation as a Bio-Social Organism. (1941) (50)
- Some determinants of the circulation of information. (1946) (47)
- The Unity of Nature, Least-Action, and Natural Social Science (1942) (42)
- National unity and disunity : the nation as a bio-social organism (1941) (42)
- CHILDREN'S SPEECH. (1942) (32)
- The Repetition of Words, Time-Perspective, and Semantic Balance (1945) (28)
- The Hypothesis of the `Minimum Equation' as a Unifying Social Principle: with Attempted Synthesis (1947) (22)
- The psychology of language (1946) (18)
- Observations of the Possible Effect of Mental Age Upon the Frequency-Distribution of Words, from the Viewpoint of Dynamic Philology (1937) (15)
- Statistical Methods and Dynamic Philology (1937) (12)
- The P 1 P 2/D Hypothesis: The Case of Railway Express (1946) (11)
- Homogeneity and heterogeneity in language; in answer to Edward L. Thorndike (1938) (9)
- Prehistoric 'Cultural Strata' in the Evolution of Germanic: The Case of Gothic (1947) (9)
- Semantic Frequency List (1941) (7)
- The generalized harmonic series as a fundamental principle of social organization (1940) (5)
- On the economical arrangement of tools; the harmonic series and the properties of space (1940) (5)
- Brand names and related social phenomena. (1950) (5)
- Quantitative Analysis of Sears, Roebuck and Company's Catalogue (1950) (4)
- Studies on the Corpus Callosum : IX. Relationship of the Grasp Reflex to Section of the Corpus Callosum. Andrew J. Akelaitis, (1943) (4)
- On the dynamic structure of concert-programs. (1946) (4)
- A Note on Brand-Names and Related Economic Phenomena (1950) (3)
- On the number, circulation-sizes, and the probable purchasers of newspapers. (1948) (2)
- Population, distance, and the circulation of information. (1947) (2)
- Some Psychological Determinants of the Structure of Publications (1945) (1)
- On the dynamic structure of concert-programs. (1946) (1)
- The Spirit of a Language (1939) (1)
- Cultural-chronological strata in speech. (1946) (1)
- The Frequency and Diversity of Business Establishments and Personal Occupations: A Study or Social Stereotypes and Cultural Roles (1947) (1)
- Phonometry, Phonology, and Dynamic Philology: An Attempted Synthesis (1938) (1)
- 109 Sargent Street Newton 58, Massachusetts (1950) (0)
- Cultural-chronological strata in speech. (1946) (0)
- On the Problem of Grammatical Rules and the Study of “General Language” (1938) (0)
- APPENDIX A. Frequency of Occurrence of Words in Plautus’ Aulularia, Mostellaria, Pseudolus, and Trinummus (1932) (0)
- The Psychology of Speech. (1938) (0)
- PART II. Relative Frequency, Abbreviation, and Semantic Change (1932) (0)
- Outline of a Theory of Linguistic Change. (1946) (0)
- PART I. The Principle of Relative Frequency in Respect to Chinese Phonology (1932) (0)
- Thesis Supervisor Propositions and Methodology for Their (0)
- APPENDIX D. Frequency of Occurrence of Syllables in the 20,000 Syllables of Appendix Β (1932) (0)
- APPENDIX B. Phonetic Transcriptions of 20,000 Syllables of the Dialect of Modern Peking (1932) (0)
- Letter to the Editor (1943) (0)
- APPENDIX C. Frequency of Occurrence of Words in the 20,000 Syllables of Appendix Β (1932) (0)
- Empiric Regularities in the Frequency-Distribution of Chemical Manufacturers and Chemical Distributors by Product-Diversity in the U. S. A., 1949 (1950) (0)
- On Dr. Miller's Contribution to the P 1 P 2 /D Hypothesis (1947) (0)
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