An Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Spoken Chinese

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The aim of our experiment was to verify the validity of the MAL applied to the temporary spoken Chinese language. Another task was to find out whether a musical genre may have an influence on the natural speech flow. The last aim of the research was to properly choose the language levels for the samples’ analysis. The segmentation and the subsequent application of the MAL were real­ized on three samples of the temporary spoken Chinese language. These were two audio tracks of a musical program and one extract from the teaching-learn­ing material compiled by prof. Švarný.