The Impact of Code-switching on the Menzerath-Altmann Law

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Impact of Code-switching on the Menzerath-Altmann Law

Original language description

Based on the Chinese-English code-switching corpus and Modern Chinese corpus, the impact of code-switching on the Menzerath-Altmann law is observed. Specifically, the relationship between the sentence length and the clause length is analysed. Both codeswitching and monolingual sentences abide by the Menzerath-Altmann law, however, differences are found in values of the determination coefficient R2 and parameter b of the function expressing the law. As for the determination coefficient R2, code-switching sentences evince worse fit of the model to the data then than the monolingual ones. Further, the lower value of b in the case of code-switching sentences expresses lower diversification (and a higher entropy) of the system.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Glottometrics

ISSN

1617-8351

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

35

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

22-27

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