The Menzerath-Altmann law as the relation between lengths of words and morphemes in Czech
, e | 30 dic 2021
Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis
NLP, Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinarity
INFORMAZIONI SU QUESTO ARTICOLO
Pubblicato online: 30 dic 2021
Pagine: 405 - 414
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0037
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© 2021 Kateřina Pelegrinová et al., published by Sciendo
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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.