Add to ORKGIn linguistics, there is a dependence between the length of the sentence and the average length of the word: the longer the sentence, the shorter the words. The corresponding empirical formula is known as the Menzerath\u27s Law. A similar dependence can be observed in many other application areas, e.g., in the analysis of genomes. The fact that the same dependence is observed in many different application domains seems to indicate there should be a general domain-independent explanation for this law. In this paper, we show that indeed, this law can be derived from natural invariance requirements
Brevity and frequency are two crucial factors in the processes of statistical learning. The compress...
Zipf’s Law is an empirical law according to which the frequency of occurrence of a word in a corpus ...
Some authors have recently argued that a finite-size scaling law for the text-length dependence of w...
The relationship between the size of the whole and the size of the parts in language and music is kn...
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's la...
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's la...
Menzerath’s law is a quantitative linguistic law which states that, on average, the longer is a ling...
Abstract In recent studies on the relationship between linguistic units of different levels (e.g., w...
This paper examines data from English, Swedish and German in order to find a theoretical distributio...
Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a wo...
We demonstrate a substantial improvement on one of the most celebrated empirical laws in the study o...
The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word feat...
Zipf’s law is a fundamental paradigm in the statistics of written and spoken natural language as wel...
Abstract The present study concentrates on the relation between sentence length (SL) and word length...
In this paper the Zipf-Mandelbrot law is revisited in the context of linguistics. Despite its widesp...
Brevity and frequency are two crucial factors in the processes of statistical learning. The compress...
Zipf’s Law is an empirical law according to which the frequency of occurrence of a word in a corpus ...
Some authors have recently argued that a finite-size scaling law for the text-length dependence of w...
The relationship between the size of the whole and the size of the parts in language and music is kn...
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's la...
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's la...
Menzerath’s law is a quantitative linguistic law which states that, on average, the longer is a ling...
Abstract In recent studies on the relationship between linguistic units of different levels (e.g., w...
This paper examines data from English, Swedish and German in order to find a theoretical distributio...
Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a wo...
We demonstrate a substantial improvement on one of the most celebrated empirical laws in the study o...
The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word feat...
Zipf’s law is a fundamental paradigm in the statistics of written and spoken natural language as wel...
Abstract The present study concentrates on the relation between sentence length (SL) and word length...
In this paper the Zipf-Mandelbrot law is revisited in the context of linguistics. Despite its widesp...
Brevity and frequency are two crucial factors in the processes of statistical learning. The compress...
Zipf’s Law is an empirical law according to which the frequency of occurrence of a word in a corpus ...
Some authors have recently argued that a finite-size scaling law for the text-length dependence of w...