Figure 1
From: Medical practices display power law behaviors similar to spoken languages
Written languages display power law behavior in word frequency. Panel A: word appearance frequency as a function of word use rank in Beowulf, Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll), The Origin of the Species (Charles Darwin), The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (TS Eliot), Genesis (King James Version), and the combined lexicon. Panel B: natural logarithm (appearance frequency) versus natural logarithm (rank) for words in each text and the combined lexicon.