The Menzerath-Altmann law as the relation between lengths of words and morphemes in Czech
, and | Dec 30, 2021
Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis
NLP, Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinarity
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Published Online: Dec 30, 2021
Page range: 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.