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    _______ States That the More Frequent a Word's Usage, the Shorter
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_______ States That the More Frequent a Word's Usage, the Shorter

Question 18

Question 18

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_______ states that the more frequent a word's usage, the shorter the word's length.


A) The relativity hypothesis
B) Sapir's theory
C) Whorf's hypothesis
D) Zipf's law

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