Menzerath-Altmann Law for Syntactic Structures in Ukrainian
Solomija Buk, Andrij Rovenchak
TL;DR
This paper investigates the Menzerath-Altmann law applied to Ukrainian syntactic structures, specifically analyzing clause length dependencies in a novel, to understand linguistic patterns and propose an automated processing approach.
Contribution
It introduces a new clause definition for Ukrainian text suitable for automated processing and verifies the Menzerath-Altmann law at the sentence level with novel parameters.
Findings
Menzerath-Altmann law holds at the sentence level in Ukrainian.
Parameters for clause length dependencies are calculated.
The study provides insights into Ukrainian syntactic structure patterns.
Abstract
In the paper, the definition of clause suitable for an automated processing of a Ukrainian text is proposed. The Menzerath-Altmann law is verified on the sentence level and the parameters for the dependences of the clause length counted in words and syllables on the sentence length counted in clauses are calculated for "Perekhresni Stezhky" ("The Cross-Paths"), a novel by Ivan Franko.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAuthorship Attribution and Profiling · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Text Readability and Simplification