Word Length in Chinese: The Menzerath-Altmann Law is Valid After All

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RIV/00216224:14210/23:00131944
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937" target="_blank" >10.1080/09296174.2023.2259937</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Word Length in Chinese: The Menzerath-Altmann Law is Valid After All
Original language description
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).
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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