02-09-2017, 05:12 PM
Here is an additional information about qo- (not really new in itself, but possibly new in this form).
This is a histogram of prefixes (occurrences of words are counted multiple times):
the green bar is the percentage of words staring with that prefix
the red bar is the percentage of exactly repeating words
About 30% of the exactly repeating words start with qo- (e.g. qokedy.qokedy, qokain.qokain)
About 15% of all words start with qo-
The stats on unique words and repeating pairs are similar:
20% of unique repeating pairs start with qo-
9% of unique words start with qo-
To summarize, this are some peculiarities of qo- (and the corresponding o- behavior):
1 and 2 could be explained by q- needing a "left context" (i.e. an immediately preceding word).
3 evidently must have some other explanation.
This is a histogram of prefixes (occurrences of words are counted multiple times):
the green bar is the percentage of words staring with that prefix
the red bar is the percentage of exactly repeating words
About 30% of the exactly repeating words start with qo- (e.g. qokedy.qokedy, qokain.qokain)
About 15% of all words start with qo-
The stats on unique words and repeating pairs are similar:
20% of unique repeating pairs start with qo-
9% of unique words start with qo-
To summarize, this are some peculiarities of qo- (and the corresponding o- behavior):
- very rare in labels (while o- is common)
- almost absent in first words of paragraphs (o- is also rare)
- common in exactly repeating word pairs (o- is neutral)
1 and 2 could be explained by q- needing a "left context" (i.e. an immediately preceding word).
3 evidently must have some other explanation.


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