A Study on Correlation between Chinese Sentence and Constituting Clauses Based on the Menzerath-Altmann Law

Renkui Hou; Chu-ren Huang; Hue San Do; Hongchao Liu

doi:10.1080/09296174.2017.1314411

A Study on Correlation between Chinese Sentence and Constituting Clauses Based on the Menzerath-Altmann Law

Renkui Hou, Chu-ren Huang, Hue San Do, Hongchao Liu

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Abstract

The Menzerath-Altmann law (henceforth the MA law), discovered by Menzerath and formulated by Altmann, describes the correlation between the language structure and its immediate components at all linguistic levels. This paper examines the correlation between Chinese sentences and their components, clauses, in texts from different registers based on the MA law. The results show that the correlation is described by the MA law only in the formal written texts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	350-366
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2017.1314411
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2017

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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