The Co-Effect of Menzerath-Altmann Law and Heavy Constituent Shift in Natural Languages

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9 novembre 2021

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HAL-SHS : linguistique

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Centre pour la communication scientifique directe

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Menzerath-Altmann law Heavy Constituent Shift Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies co-effect natural languages

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Sylvain Kahane et al., « The Co-Effect of Menzerath-Altmann Law and Heavy Constituent Shift in Natural Languages », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.zdekk7

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

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