... Values for the Models Unlike texts (Baayen, 1996a;1996b), the ill- fits of the growth curve of the models are not caused by the randomness assumption of the model, because the results of the term-level ... 1967), the inverse Gauss-Poisson 'law' (Sichel, 1986), Zipf's 'law' (Zipf, 1935) and Yule-Simon 'law' (Simon, 1955). 4 Analysis of Terminology 4.1 Random ... the values of p. In using some explicit expressions such as lognormal 'law' (Carrol, 1967) for G(p), we again face the problem of sample size depen- dency of the parameters of these...