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

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RIV/00216224:14210/23:00131944

Výsledek na webu

<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>

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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).

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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).

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

ISSN

0929-6174

e-ISSN

1744-5035

Svazek periodika

30

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3-4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

304-321

Kód UT WoS článku

001097757500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85176143342