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  1. Doesn't sound too impressive to me on Do Music and Language Obey the Same Rules? · · Score: 1
    I really didn't read through the article, but I'm surprised he doesn't cite this well-known article:
    @article{ li92random,
    author = "Li",
    title = "Random Texts Exhibit Zipf's Law-Like Word Frequency Distribution",
    journal = "IEEETIT: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory",
    volume = "38",
    year = "1992",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/li92random.html" }
    In fact, many (possibly quite random) phenomena in nature exhibit a Zipf's law-like distribution. I think it would come as more of a surprise to me if music did not.