Frequency

(first draft) Frequency is one of the most prominent quantitative properties of linguistic units among others, such as length, polysemy, age, polytextuality, and homonymy.

Laws and hypotheses concerning frequency are based either on distributional analyses (in form of rank-frequency distributions, cf. the well-known Zipf (Zipf-Mandelbrot) law, or in the spectral form, which represents the number of units with a given frequency.

Author: R. Köhler