English Explanatory Dictionary

Menzerath's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A rule according to which the increase of a linguistic construct results in a decrease of its constituents, and vice versa: for example, the more clauses appear in a sentence, the shorter those clauses are.

Word forms

Menzerath's law

Etymology

Named after Paul Menzerath.

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