Random Texts Do Not Exhibit the Real Zipf's Law-Like Rank Distribution

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Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho ,

* E-mail: rferrericancho@lsi.upc.edu

Affiliation Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Brita Elvevåg

Affiliation Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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