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Quantitative linguistics and complex system studiesFootnote*
We are grateful to Mr. M.S. Nanjundiah for lending us the CD‐ROM (Library of the Future TM Series). We thank Prof. R. Köhler for several excellent suggestions to improve the paper and Prof. G. Altmann for valuable comments. We thank Prof. P. Grassberger for permission to reproduce Figure la (Grassberger, 1986); Prof. S. Ramaseshan, Editor, Current Science, and Dr. H.K. Khanna, Editor, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, for allowing reproductions of figures from our earlier publications [Figure 4,5a, Naranan & Balasubrahmanyan (1992b) and Figure 6, Naranan & Balsubrahmanyan (1993)]. We acknowledge the help of Mr. T.V. Suresh, Dr. Rahul Sinha and Dr. G. Subramoniam in processing the manuscript for e‐mail. Prof. R. Ramachandran, Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras has kindly made available to us the excellent e‐mail facilities of the Institute; and we are grateful to him. We thank Mr. N.M. Malwad for access to Dewey (1923).
Address correspondence to: S. Naranan, 20 A/3, Second Cross Street, Jayaramnagar, Thiruvanmiyur, Madras 600041, India.

V.K. Balasubrahmanyan Bangalore

S. Naranan 20 A/3, Second Cross Street, Jayaramnagar, Thiruvanmiyur, Madras, 600041, India

Pages 177-228 | Published online: 22 Aug 2008

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