Talk:Brevity law

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Date of Zipf's work?
This claims that Zipf's law is based on work on American English in 1945, but he seems to have proposed it in Psychobiology of Language (1935) based on a German dataset. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-4068-9_13 Myopic Bookworm (talk) 09:41, 21 September 2020 (UTC)