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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