Stephen R. Ellis, Robert J. Hitchcock. The Emergence of Zipf's Law: Spontaneous Encoding Optimization by Users of a Command Language. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, 16(3):423-427, 1986. [doi]
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title = {The Emergence of Zipf's Law: Spontaneous Encoding Optimization by Users of a Command Language},
author = {Stephen R. Ellis and Robert J. Hitchcock},
year = {1986},
doi = {10.1109/TSMC.1986.4308973},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.1986.4308973},
researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/EllisH86},
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journal = {IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A},
volume = {16},
number = {3},
pages = {423-427},
}