Distribution of the Menzerath’s law on the syllable level in Greek texts

Georgios Mikros; Jiří Milička

Distribution of the Menzerath’s law on the syllable level in Greek texts

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Abstract

Examining a large corpus of Greek texts we found that the average length of syllables in the disyllabic words is lower than the average length of the syllable in monosyllabic words and lower than the average length of syllables in tri-syllabic words. This peculiar phenomenon can be interpreted as a counterexample of the Menzerah's Law.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Empirical Approaches to Text and Language Analysis
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Distribution of the Menzerath’s law on the syllable level in Greek texts

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