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Language and Law: Brevity and Drafting in Law, Business, and the Social Sciences [PDF]
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2019 In this paper, the author intends to present an approach against lengthy contracts, judgements, and pleadings. He describes the advantages of brevity, conciseness, and plain English, focusing on research in Israel and abroad.
Shattah Joseph
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The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analysing mean call durations [PDF]
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2013 Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated.
Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy +5 more
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Zipf’s law of brevity is a widespread manifestation of information compression found across human languages and other communication systems. Chimpanzee gesture represents a rare absence of its expression in short-range communication.
Safryghin A +11 more
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, 2022 Compression has been presented as a general principle of animal communication. Zipf’s Law of brevity is a manifestation of this postulate and can be generalized as the tendency of more frequent communicative elements to be shorter.
Antoni Hernández-Fernández (7122419) +1 more
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A statistical model from information theory to explain Zipf's law of brevity
, 2019 Brevity and frequency are two crucial factors in the processes of statistical learning. The compression principle had already been used previously to explain the origin of Zipf’s law for the frequency of words. Here we use a model from information theory
Hernández Fernández, Antonio +4 more
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Linguistic laws of brevity: conformity in Indri indri [PDF]
Animal Cognition, 2021 Vocal and gestural sequences of several primates have been found to conform to two general principles of information compression: the compensation between the duration of a construct and that of its components (Menzerath-Altmann law) and an inverse relationship between signal duration and its occurrence (Zipf's law of abbreviation).
Daria Valente +10 more
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Hedging Brevity Risk with Mortality-based Securities [PDF]
, 2006 In 2003, Swiss Re introduced a mortality-based security designed to hedge excessive mortality changes for its life book of business. The concern was apparently brevity risk, i.e., the risk of premature death. The brevity risk due to a pandemic is similar
MacMinn, Richard, Richter, Andreas
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Data from: Compression principle and Zipf's law of brevity in infochemical communication
, 2022 Compression has been presented as a general principle of animal communication. Zipf's law of brevity is a manifestation of this postulate and can be generalised as the tendency of more frequent communicative elements to be shorter.
Hernandez-Fernandez, Antoni +1 more
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The Silent Revolution in Methods of Advocacy in English Courts
Journal on European History of Law, 2022 George Keeton wrote, in 1943, about “a silent revolution in methods of advocacy as practiced by the English Bar over the last fifty years” Changed standards of etiquette, professional rules and greater control exerted by judges over these years led to a
Andrew Watson
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رســــائل النبي إلى المـــــلوک والأمــــــــراء. "دراسة بلاغية" [PDF]
مجلة الزهراء, 2020 رســــائل النبي e إلى المـــــلوک والأمــــــــراء. "دراسة بلاغية" محمد مصطفى محمود ليلة قسم اللغة العربية وآدابها، کلية الدراسات الإسلامية والعربية للبنين، جامعة الأزهر، القاهرة، مصر.
محمد مصطفى محمود ليلة ليلة
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