@inproceedings{skotarek_zipfs_2020,
	title = {Zipf’s law in {Toki} {Pona}},
	isbn = {9786188458512},
	url = {https://exlingsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/proceedings/exling-2020/11_0047_000462.pdf},
	doi = {10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0047/000462},
	abstract = {Zipf’s Law states that within a given text the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table of the words used in that text. It is a statistical regularity of a power law that occurs ubiquitously in language – so far every language that has been tested was found to display the Zipfian distribution. Toki Pona is an experimental artificial language spoken by hundreds of users. It is extremely minimalistic – its vocabulary consists of mere 120 words. A comparative statistical analysis of two parallel texts in French and Toki Pona showed that even a language of such scarce vocabulary adheres to Zipf’s Law just like natural languages.},
	urldate = {2025-04-17},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 11th {International} {Conference} of {Experimental} {Linguistics}},
	publisher = {ExLing Society},
	author = {Skotarek, Dariusz},
	year = {2020},
}

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