Research Article

A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System

Figure 2

Collapsed distributions. (a) English texts, joint sample, (b) English literary works, (c) English poetry, (d) Russian texts, joint sample, (e) Russian literary works, and (f) Russian poetry. Red colour (with discs) stands for the complete vocabulary (of size ), grey colour (with squares) is for the vocabulary of size 0.9, blue colour (with diamonds) is for 0.8, black colour (with triangles) is for 0.7, orange colour (with upturned triangles) is for 0.6, and, finally, purple colour (with circles) is for 0.5; the curves are artificially dragged apart a little bit in order to make it possible to distinguish them as they are superimposed owing to data collapse. versus ; is a landmark coordinate.