Menzerath’s Law in the Syntax of Languages Compared with Random Sentences

The Menzerath law is considered to show an aspect of the complexity underlying natural language. This law suggests that, for a linguistic unit, the size (<i>y</i>) of a linguistic construct decreases as the number (<i>x</i>) of constructs in the unit increases. This article i...

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Main Author: Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/6/661