Menzerath's law: Is it just regression toward the mean?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10473731" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10473731 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KfcU91hWh6" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KfcU91hWh6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.53482/2023_55_409" target="_blank" >10.53482/2023_55_409</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Menzerath's law: Is it just regression toward the mean?
Original language description
The study revisits the Menzerath's Law, which articulates the inverse relationship between the lengthof constructs and the mean length of their constituents. This relationship is famously modelled byGabriel Altmann's model, which combines power and exponential relations. His formulas havebeen widely used to describe this relationship across linguistics and biology, however, there is nosatisfactory explanation for his model. Therefore, the paper proposes shifting our perspective toexamine directly the relationship between the number of constituents in a construct and the numberof subconstituents in the same construct. This relationship may be explained by a simple modelbased on linear regression, which leads to a hyperbolic model of the Menzerath's Law. This approachis successful for several datasets, but insufficient for others.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Glottometrics
ISSN
1617-8351
e-ISSN
2625-8226
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
001171583300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85182649298