The Menzerath-Altmann law as the relation between lengths of words and morphemes in Czech
, et | 30 déc. 2021
Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis
NLP, Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinarity
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Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2021
Pages: 405 - 414
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0037
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It is shown that the mean morpheme length (measured in phonemes) decreases with the increasing length of word types (in morphemes) in Czech texts, i.e., these language units behave according to the Menzerath-Altmann law. The law is not valid in general for word tokens. Some hints towards an interpretation of parameters are presented.