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Online supplement for the paper 'Zipf's Law of Abbreviation holds for individual letters across a broad range of writing systems'

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Zipf's Law of Abbreviation holds for individual letters across a broad range of writing systems

Online supplement

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Authors:

  • Alexey Koshevoy
  • Helena Miton
  • Olivier Morin

Pre-registration

This study was pregeistered on the Open Sciense Framework. The pre-registration document is stored here.

Reproduction

  • data contains the dataset with 1560 characters from 27 writing systems used in this analysis together with dataset with the information about each of the writing systems used.

  • preprocessing contains files needed to build the final dataset.

  • analysis.R contains the code needed to reproduce all of the analyses and figures used in the paper. To run the code, you would need to install all of the packages listed in the beginning of the file (usually it is done autrimatically by R-Studio). This code is successfully executed in R-Studio 2022.02.0 with R version 4.2.0.