Explain the law: When the evidence is not enough

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F21%3A73606736" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/21:73606736 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/lf-2021-0016" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/lf-2021-0016</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0016" target="_blank" >10.2478/lf-2021-0016</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Explain the law: When the evidence is not enough

Original language description

The article responds to the current variability of research into linguistic laws and the explanation of these laws. We show basic features to approach linguistic laws in the field of quantitative linguistics and research on linguistic laws outside the field of language and text. Language laws are usually explained in terms of the langu-age system—especially as economizing—or of the information structure of the text (Piantadosi 2014). One of the hallmarks of the transmission of linguistic laws outside the realm of language and text is that they provide other kinds of explanations (Torre et al. 2019). We want to show that the problem of linguistics in the explanation of linguistic laws lies primarily in its inability to clarify the internal structure of language material, and the influence of the theory or method used for sample processing on the result of law analysis—which was formulated by Peter Grzybek (2006). We would like to show that this is the reason why linguistics avoids explanations of linguistic laws.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL02000530" target="_blank" >TL02000530: Interactive non-fiction books: redefining the electronic publishing of non-fiction</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Linguistic Frontiers

ISSN

2544-6339

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

54-61

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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