“…Words have widely varying frequencies of use. The distributions of these frequencies provide a rich source of information that is exploited in quantitative stylistics (Brunet, 1978;Holmes, 1994;Hubert and Labbe, 1988;Muller, 1977), lexicography (Martin 1983(Martin , 1988, and linguistics (Anshen and Aronoff, 1988;Baayen, 1992Baayen, , 1993Baayen, , 1994Harwood and Wright, 1956;Koehler, 1986). For example, it has been found that when particular aspects of meaning are consistently expressed by overt affixes, differently shaped word distributions can be observed; the word frequency distribution of nouns in the English suffix -ness (goodness) is differently shaped than that of nouns in -ee (escapee).…”