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Abstract
Validity of the Menzerath-Altmann law has been confirmed in a number of works for lan-guages with different morphology. This research is aimed at disclosure of potential correla-tions between the structure of the Tatar word form and the average length of its constituent syllables; taking into consideration that the Turkic language family is rarely represented in quantitative linguistics, we tested the law using data from ten Tatar texts, both poetry and prose, to interpret the results from the point of view of grammar. To assess the goodness of fit of the model we applied the coefficient of determination R2 which for different texts ranged from 0.676 to 0.999. The study revealed that the examined data in Tatar generally abide by G. Altmann’s formula; the average syllable length depended both on its position in the word and on word length, and joining more affixes provided decrease in the average syl-lable length. For individual texts, while the law as a trend was observed, we discovered cer-tain fluctuations when the average syllable length for sufficiently long words was greater than for relatively short ones. Analyzing the whole corpus data we distinguished between tokens (with frequencies taken into account) and types (unique word forms considered once); the research proved the Menzerath-Altmann law valid in both cases, with better result for types.
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