Can Menzerath’s law be a criterion of complexity in communication?

• Iván G. Torre ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Iván G. Torre, Łukasz Dębowski

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vicomtech Foundation, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), San Sebastián, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2380-010X

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• Łukasz Dębowski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Iván G. Torre, Łukasz Dębowski

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7136-5283

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• Antoni Hernández-Fernández

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: antonio.hernandez@upc.edu

  Affiliations Complexity and Quantitative Linguistics Lab, Institut de Ciències de l’Educació, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Societat Catalana de Tecnologia, Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9466-2704

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