Table 16 Evaluation results of the fit of Yule’s equation to the ranked frequency distribution of Polish phonemes (n=1) and n-phoneme sequences for n=2,…,5

1

\(Y_{r} = \frac {0.095948}{r^{0.149}}\cdot 0.94^{r}\)

0.92198

6.7012·10⁻³

2

\(Y_{r} = \frac {0.020909}{r^{0.287}}\cdot 0.994^{r}\)

0.99532

1.3393·10⁻⁴

3

\(Y_{r} = \frac {0.0067353}{r^{0.35}}\cdot 0.9992^{r}\)

0.98932

2.2056·10⁻⁵

4

\(Y_{r} = \frac {0.0031449}{r^{0.35}}\cdot 0.9997^{r}\)

0.98510

5.5017·10⁻⁶

5

\(Y_{r} = \frac {0.0019385}{r^{0.33}}\cdot 0.9998^{r}\)

0.98028

2.6493·10⁻⁶