[split] Word length autocorrelation

[Jorge_Stolfi]

in natural languages

Ahem, please be more precise: "in English and some Romance Languages, with their standard writing systems"...

In Chinese, with its standard writing system, the long-short correlation is exactly zero.  Because every "word" has exactly the same length -- one character.  Every one with a perfectly square outline.  With exactly the same space between "words".

(When transliterated with Latin letters, e.g. in pinyin, it is customary to join the syllables of compounds that would have their own entries in dictionaries.  Like 中国 = zhōng guó = center country -> zhōngguó  = China.  But these compounds have never been marked in any way in the traditional writing system.)

All the best, --jorge