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Date of Zipf's work?

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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)[reply]