%0 Journal Article
%T Testing the Menzerath-Altmann Law in the Sentence Level of Written Chinese
%A Heng Chen
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 5
%N 8
%P 1-5
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2018
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1104747
%X <div style="text-align:justify;">
	<span style="line-height:1.5;">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 shoul</span><span style="line-height:1.5;">d 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.</span>
</div>
%K Menzerath-Altmann Law
%K Sentence
%K Language Level
%K Written Chinese
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5298173