Zipf, George Kingsley (1902-1950)
Harvard linguistic professor George Kingsley Zipf applied
statistical and linguistic theories on human communication. His studies of
word-frequencies are regarded classics in
bibliometrics.
Literature:
Zipf, G. K. (1932). Selected Studies of the Principle of Relative Frequencies of Language.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Zipf, G. K. (1935). The Psychobiology of Language. Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin.
Zipf, G. K. (1949). Human behavior and the Principle of the Least Effort. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
See also: Laws; Zipf's law.
Generic group: Information science, biography
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 28-10-2006