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Zipf's law Tendency for the most frequent words to be short.
Example:In the Wellington Spoken Corpus the ten most frequent words in order are:the, and, I, to, a, you, that, it, of, yeah.Two of these words comprise only one phoneme; six have two phonemes; and two are three phonemes long (though and is usually reduced to the two phoneme an or one phoneme n in speech).
Topic: Visual word recognition