A Report on the Distribution of Phonetic Renderings in Loanwords
Kamil Stachowski · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 2017
The paper analyses the distribution of counts of phonetic renderings in 25 adaptations of loanwords from three methodologically different datasets, and concludes that all are consistent with the Zipf–Alekseev distribution. In addition, an intriguing correlation between the coefficients is observed.