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Gabriel Altmann | |
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| Born | 24 May 1931 |
| Died | 2 March 2020 (aged 88) Lüdenscheid, Germany |
| Nationality | Czechoslovak |
| Known for | Menzerath's law Contributions to quantitative linguistics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics, mathematics |
| Institutions | Ruhr University Bochum |
Gabriel Altmann (24 May 1931 – 2 March 2020) was a Slovak-German linguist and mathematician. He made significant contributions to the field of quantitative linguistics. He is best known for co-developing Menzerath's law, also known as the Menzerath-Altmann law, which describes the relationship between the size of a linguistic construct and the size of its linguistic constituents.