It's a bit disappointing to still see references to Wentian Li's paper.
I wonder how many people who refer to it have actually read it?
When Gabriel Landini wrote his Cryptologia paper about the Zipf law in the Voynich MS, 19 years ago, it was already understood that this describes something very different.
The words in that process are generated using an algorithm that creates words of ever increasing length. Nothing like language.
It cannot be used as evidence that arbitrary language-like text should follow the Zipf law.
I wonder how many people who refer to it have actually read it?
When Gabriel Landini wrote his Cryptologia paper about the Zipf law in the Voynich MS, 19 years ago, it was already understood that this describes something very different.
The words in that process are generated using an algorithm that creates words of ever increasing length. Nothing like language.
It cannot be used as evidence that arbitrary language-like text should follow the Zipf law.