| MOTALOVÁ, Tereza, Ján MAČUTEK and Radek ČECH. Word length in Chinese : The Menzerath-Altmann law is valid after all. JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS. ENGLAND: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023, vol. 30, 3-4, p. 304-321. ISSN 0929-6174. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937. |
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@article{2327037,
author = {Motalová, Tereza and Mačutek, Ján and Čech, Radek},
article_location = {ENGLAND},
article_number = {3-4},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937},
keywords = {word length; Menzerath-Altmann law; Chinese; syllable; Chinese characters},
language = {eng},
issn = {0929-6174},
journal = {JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS},
title = {Word length in Chinese : The Menzerath-Altmann law is valid after all.},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937},
volume = {30},
year = {2023}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 2327037
AU - Motalová, Tereza - Mačutek, Ján - Čech, Radek
PY - 2023
TI - Word length in Chinese : The Menzerath-Altmann law is valid after all.
JF - JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS
VL - 30
IS - 3-4
SP - 304-321
EP - 304-321
PB - ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
SN - 09296174
KW - word length
KW - Menzerath-Altmann law
KW - Chinese
KW - syllable
KW - Chinese characters
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937
N2 - According to the Menzerath-Altmann law, longer language constructs consist, on average, of shorter constituents. It is most often studied at the level of words and syllables (the mean syllable length gets shorter with the increasing word length). Its validity at this level was corroborated in several languages. However, it was claimed that Chinese is an exception with respect to the validity of the Menzerath-Altmann law. We show that the law is valid if word types are considered, while the behaviour of word tokens is different. This difference can be explained by the fact that the Zipf law of abbreviation is valid not only for words but also for syllables (shorter syllables are used more frequently).
ER -
MOTALOVÁ, Tereza, Ján MAČUTEK and Radek ČECH. Word length in Chinese : The Menzerath-Altmann law is valid after all. \textit{JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS}. ENGLAND: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR \&{} FRANCIS LTD, 2023, vol.~30, 3-4, p.~304-321. ISSN~0929-6174. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937.
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