Language change in Chinese political discourse based on the relationship between sentence and clause

Renkui Hou; Chu-Ren Huang; Kathleen Ahrens; Xiaoyi Du

Language change in Chinese political discourse based on the relationship between sentence and clause

Renkui Hou
, Chu-Ren Huang
, Kathleen Ahrens
, Xiaoyi Du

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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The present paper explored the language change in Chinese political discourse in Mainland through the investigation of the relationship between sentence and clause based on Menzerath-Altmann law. The results showed that the relationship between sentence and clause in first and second periods (1978-1982 and 1997-2001) Chinese political discourses abide by the Menzerath-Altmann law, while they do not abide by the law in third period. The average clause length distribution in first and second periods political discourse can be fitted by the y=ax^b and the fitted parameters can distinguish the different periods political speeches. The relationship between sentence and clause changed with time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Editors	Kaibao Hu, Jong-Bok Kim, Chengqing Zong, Emmanuele Chersoni
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	244-250
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021
Event	35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2021 - Shanghai, China Duration: 5 Nov 2021 → 7 Nov 2021

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Conference	35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2021
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	5/11/21 → 7/11/21

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Human-Computer Interaction
Linguistics and Language

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Hou, R., Huang, C.-R., Ahrens, K., & Du, X. (2021). Language change in Chinese political discourse based on the relationship between sentence and clause. In K. Hu, J.-B. Kim, C. Zong, & E. Chersoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (pp. 244-250). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://aclanthology.org/2021.paclic-1.26/

Hou, Renkui ; Huang, Chu-Ren ; Ahrens, Kathleen et al. / Language change in Chinese political discourse based on the relationship between sentence and clause. Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. editor / Kaibao Hu ; Jong-Bok Kim ; Chengqing Zong ; Emmanuele Chersoni. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021. pp. 244-250

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Language change in Chinese political discourse based on the relationship between sentence and clause. / Hou, Renkui; Huang, Chu-Ren ; Ahrens, Kathleen et al.
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Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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