Different methods of computing MAL reflect similar results.

Relation between word size (measured in number of syllables) versus the mean size of those syllables, where each panel corresponds to one different languages of Gutenberg corpus. Each thin grey line represents one book, whereas black circles are the mean duration of books. Meanwhile blue squares are the result of computing MAL from the full corpus. Both methods shows similar results and solid lines are just represented for visual comparison. Results on 17 additional languages are provided in S1 Fig.