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The distribution of word meanings in a corpus follows a Zipfian distribution governed by semantic constraints.
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Corpus analyses consistently show that the distribution of word meanings and frequencies follows a Zipfian distribution, reflecting underlying linguistic and cognitive constraints.

Evidence for · 2
Zipfian Distributions in Child-Directed Speech.
2023 · cited by 7
Paper [3] demonstrates that word frequency and rank follow a Zipfian distribution across various languages and parts of speech in child-directed speech.
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The retrieved papers provide robust support for the premise that word distributions follow Zipfian laws across languages and are shaped by linguistic and statistical constraints (e.g., papers 3 and 7). No papers refute the claim.

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Entropy Estimation Using a Linguistic Zipf-Mandelbrot-Li Model for Natural Sequences.
2021 · cited by 2
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