A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System

Table 2

Estimated power-law exponents and lower cutoffs for distributions of the number of words in texts for literary works for XIXth (and before it) and for XXth century.

Time limit	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)
	XIX century and early	118	1.37	75	1.37	91	1.71	53	1.87
XX century	121	1.19	54	1.21	74	1.75	53	2.03

nw: the number of words; dl: dimensionless.