Abstract:Zipf's law states that there is an inverse relationship between a word's length and its frequency; the more frequent words tend to be the shortest. Following this premise, I investigate if this universal property in language can extend to domains beyond the word. As such, the present study analyzes the use of proverbs, a specific type of fixed expressions, in a Spanish corpus of news language. The motivation for this study is to determine if more frequent proverbs are more likely to be shortened, relative to t… Show more
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