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• TITLE: Testing the Menzerath-Altmann Law in the Sentence Level of Written Chinese

  AUTHORS: Heng Chen

  KEYWORDS: Menzerath-Altmann Law, Sentence, Language Level, Written Chinese

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.5 No.8, August 8, 2018

  ABSTRACT: Language unit is a fundamental conception in modern linguistics, but the boundaries are not clear between language levels. As language is a multi-level system, quantification rather than microscopic grammatical analysis should be used to investigate into this question. In this paper, Menzerath-Altmann law is used to make out the basic language units in written Chinese in the sentence level.