The Menzerath-Altmann law as the relation between lengths of words and morphemes in Czech
Kateřina Pelegrinová, Ján Mačutek, Radek Čech · Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis · 2021
Abstract It is shown that the mean morpheme length (measured in phonemes) decreases with the increasing length of word types (in morphemes) in Czech texts, i.e., these language units behave according to the Menzerath-Altmann law. The law is not valid in general for word tokens. Some hints towards an interpretation of parameters are presented.