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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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021
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