Prolegomena to Menzerath's law

Gabriel Altmann, 1980. Glottometrika.

Gabriel Altmann's formal statement of Menzerath's law, the tendency for longer linguistic units to be built from shorter parts. Later work cites it in Glottometrika, but no record of the volume itself was found.

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What it's used for here

The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey gives it as the key citation for a Menzerath-Altmann test of whether longer Voynich units have shorter constituents.

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Altmann, G. (1980). Prolegomena to Menzerath's law. Glottometrika.

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Altmann, Gabriel. “Prolegomena to Menzerath's law.” Glottometrika (1980).