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The co-effect of Menzerath-Altmann law and heavy constituent shift in natural languages

Xinying Chen
Sylvain Kahane
Marine Courtin

Résumé

The present paper tries to link the Menzerath-Altmann law (MAL) to the Heavy Constituent Shift (HCS) phenomenon and discuss their co-effect in human natural languages. We deduce a hypothesis based on MAL and HCS and then try to empirically verify it by investigating multiple language data from Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD). Our results show that the hypothesis is valid across the complete set of typologically diverse languages and the co-effect of MAL and HCS appears to be a very regular universal.

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hal-04099935 , version 1 (17-05-2023)

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Xinying Chen, Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane, Marine Courtin. The co-effect of Menzerath-Altmann law and heavy constituent shift in natural languages. Quantitative Approaches to Universality and Individuality in Language, De Gruyter, pp.11-24, 2022, ⟨10.1515/9783110763560-002⟩. ⟨hal-04099935⟩
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