An investigation of speech as a form of behavior, examined in the
manner of the exact sciences by the direct application of
statistical principles to the objective speech-phenomena. The
findings of an extensive investigation of the stream of speech
which is viewed as but a series of communicative gestures,
presented in such a manner that they will be readily available not
only to the professional linguist, but to any serious reader
interested in linguistic phenomena. The author provides evidence
for example, that the length of a word, far from being a random
matter, is closely related to the frequency of its usage-the
greater the frequency, the shorter the word. It can furthermore be
shown that either from speech-sounds, or from roots and affixes, or
from words or phrases, that the more complex any speech-element is
phonetically, the less frequently it occurs.All the author's
evidence points quite conclusively to the existence of a
fundamental condition of equilibrium between the form and function
of speech-habits, or speech-patterns in any language.
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