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When is Menzerath-Altmann law mathematically trivial? A new approach
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries +2
Menzerath's law, the tendency of Z, the mean size of the parts, to decrease as X, the number of parts, increases is found in language, music and genomes. Recently, it has been argu…
The challenges of statistical patterns of language: the case of Menzerath's law in genomes
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Núria Forns, Antoni Hernández-Fernández +2
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's law is perhaps the most popular case, recently, Menzerath's law has begun to be in…
The failure of the law of brevity in two New World primates. Statistical caveats
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández
Parallels of Zipf's law of brevity, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, have been found in bottlenose dolphins and Formosan macaques. Although these findings suggest…
The parameters of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes
Jaume Baixeries, Antoni Hernandez-Fernandez, Nuria Forns +1
The relationship between the size of the whole and the size of the parts in language and music is known to follow Menzerath-Altmann law at many levels of description (morphemes, wo…