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It has been put forward that information theory was only out to prove in a complicated way what is reasonably obvious from elementary considerations, or at least that some papers dealing with the matter had done so. This is not true for its application to language.
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Herdan, G. (1966). Information-Theoretical Analysis as a Tool of Linguistic Research. In: The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance. Kommunikation und Kybernetik in Einzeldarstellungen, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88388-0_16
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