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. 2012 Dec 10;2:943. doi: 10.1038/srep00943

Figure 2. Allometric scaling of language.

Figure 2

Scatter plots of the output corpora size Nu given the empirical vocabulary size Nw using all data (Uc = 0) over the 209-year period 1800–2008. Shown are OLS estimation of the exponent b quantifying the Heaps' law relation Nw ~ [Nu]b.