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The Menzerath-Altmann law as the relation between lengths of words and morphemes in Czech

In: Jazykovedný časopis, vol. 72, no. 2
Kateřina Pelegrinová - Ján Mačutek - Radek Čech

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Year, pages: 2021, 405 - 414
Language: eng
Keywords:
Menzerath-Altmann law, word, morpheme, phoneme, Czech
Article type: Corpus-Based/Corpus-Driven Linguistic Research
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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.
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Pelegrinová, K., Mačutek, J., Čech, R. 2021. The Menzerath-Altmann law as the relation between lengths of words and morphemes in Czech. In Jazykovedný časopis, vol. 72, no.2, pp. 405-414. ISSN 0021-5597. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0037

APA:
Pelegrinová, K., Mačutek, J., Čech, R. (2021). The Menzerath-Altmann law as the relation between lengths of words and morphemes in Czech. Jazykovedný časopis, 72(2), 405-414. ISSN 0021-5597. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0037
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