12-02-2017, 02:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2017, 02:21 PM by Torsten.
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(11-02-2017, 05:54 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's a good observation to be starting from. The implication is that at least some of the single characters before aiin at the start of a line are in some way nulls.
For me, the interesting question is whether the proportion of saiin to (non-s)aiin at the line start is the same as the proportion of aiin to (single-letter)aiin. If it is , it would give support to the suggestion that line-initial s- is a null.
I didn't know if I understand you right. But maybe you mean a calculation like this:
line initial: saiin ( 59) / daiin (158) = 0.37
in line : aiin (469) / daiin (705) = 0.66
total : saiin (144) / daiin (863) = 0.17
total : aiin (469) / daiin (863) = 0.54
total line initial
aiin (469) aiin ( 0)
ain ( 89) ain ( 0)
total line initial
saiin (144) saiin ( 59)
sain ( 68) sain ( 36)
total line initial
daiin (863) daiin (158)
dain (211) dain ( 49)