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TY - GEN N1 - Text is somewhat extended compared to the published version. ID - cogprints5817 UR - http://cogprints.org/5817/ A1 - Manin, Dmitrii Y1 - 2006/12/26/ N2 - Based on data from a large-scale experiment with human subjects, we conclude that the logarithm of probability to guess a word in context (unpredictability) depends linearly on the word length. This result holds both for poetry and prose, even though with prose, the subjects don't know the length of the omitted word. We hypothesize that this effect reflects a tendency of natural language to have an even information rate. PB - Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) RAS KW - Natural language KW - information theory KW - information rate KW - entropy KW - experiment KW - word guessing TI - Experiments on predictability of word in context and information rate in natural language SP - 229 AV - public EP - 236 ER -