A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System

Table 1

Estimated power-law exponents and lower cutoffs for distributions of the number of words in texts of literary works and social media.

Sample type	English				Russian
	Estimates based on data collapse		Estimates based on KS criterion		Estimates based on data collapse		Estimates based on KS criterion
	(nw)	(dl)	(nw)	(dl)	(nw)	(dl)	(nw)	(dl)
	Literary works	114	1.30	55	1.29	72	1.78	56	1.97
Poetry works	125	1.91	109	1.89	112	2.61	98	2.63
Social media	111	2.65	124	2.63	183	2.10	151	2.15
Joint sample	109	1.39	42	1.34	85	1.82	62	1.95

nw: the number of words; dl: dimensionless.