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==References== {{Reflist|25em|refs= <ref name=Auerbach1913> {{cite journal |last=Auerbach |first=F. |year=1913 |title=Das Gesetz der Bevölkerungskonzentration |lang=de |journal=Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen |volume=59 |pages=74–76 }} </ref> <ref name=zipf1935> {{cite book |first=G.K. |last=Zipf |author-link=George K. Zipf |year=1935 |title=The Psychobiology of Language |publisher=Houghton-Mifflin |place=New York, NY }} </ref> <ref name=zipf1932> {{cite book |first=G.K. |last=Zipf |author-link=George K. 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