Testing the Menzerath-Altmann Law in the Sentence Level of Written Chinese - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.5 No.8, August 2018

Testing the Menzerath-Altmann Law in the Sentence Level of Written Chinese ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104747 495 Downloads 1,032 Views Citations

Author(s)

Heng Chen

Affiliation(s)

Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT

Language unit is a fundamental conception in modern linguistics, but the boundaries are not clear between language levels. As language is a multi-level system, quantification rather than microscopic grammatical analysis should be used to investigate into this question. In this paper, Menzerath-Altmann law is used to make out the basic language units in written Chinese in the sentence level.

KEYWORDS

Menzerath-Altmann Law, Sentence, Language Level, Written Chinese

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Chen, H. (2018) Testing the Menzerath-Altmann Law in the Sentence Level of Written Chinese. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-5. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104747.

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