Ancient Symbols, Computational Linguistics, and the Reviewing Practices of the General Science Journals

Abstract

People have used the existence of quasi-Zipfian distributions in symbol systems to argue for their status as writing; such claims figure in the work of Rao and colleagues.But because it has been long known that Zipfian distributions hold of many things besides language, such arguments are easy to dismiss.

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