Can Menzerath's law be a criterion of complexity in communication?

Menzerath's law is a quantitative linguistic law which states that, on average, the longer is a linguistic construct, the shorter are its constituents. In contrast, Menzerath-Altmann's law (MAL) is a precise mathematical power-law-exponential formula which expresses the expected length of...

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Main Authors: Iván G Torre, Łukasz Dębowski, Antoni Hernández-Fernández
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b290498c68564d13ae3248b667ea53d5
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