(22-07-2018, 10:18 AM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(21-07-2018, 01:23 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.An important question for the VMS is if relations between different word types exists. Such relations did indeed exist. See for instance similar word types like chol and Shol. The word type chol occurs 396 times and the word type Shol 186 times. With other words chol is round about twice as frequent as Shol. If we check other similar word pairs like chor/Shor, chal/Shal and char/Shar we get similar results. In all this cases the word type starting with Sh instead of ch is less frequent:
chol (396) chor (219) chal ( 48) char ( 72)
shol (186) shor ( 97) shal ( 15) shar ( 34)
cheol (172) cheor (100) cheal ( 30) chear ( 51)
sheol (114) sheor ( 51) sheal ( 19) shear ( 21)
I remember You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. but couldn't come to a conclusion about them. Any thoughts?
Hi Emma,
I didn't remember that post of yours: thank you for mentioning it! This seems like a very regular pattern. I see that, when you published it, Torsten made the interesting observation that the patterns differ in Currier A and B.
I get these numbers for the first table in your post (they are slightly different from those posted by Torsten in his comment, but they are qualitatively comparable):
Code:
A
chor 177 shor 66 chol 261 shol 114
cheor 59 sheor 26 cheol 71 sheol 37
cheeor 8 sheeor 4 cheeol 3 sheeol 5
char 30 shar 12 chal 15 shal 1
chear 20 shear 5 cheal 7 sheal 2
cheear 0 sheear 2 cheeal 1 sheeal 0
B
chor 31 shor 26 chol 99 shol 60
cheor 32 sheor 24 cheol 90 sheol 68
cheeor 5 sheeor 2 cheeol 6 sheeol 9
char 36 shar 20 chal 27 shal 13
chear 26 shear 15 cheal 22 sheal 12
cheear 1 sheear 0 cheeal 1 sheeal 1 The obvious difference is that these words are considerably rarer in Currier B (also considering that B is about twice the size of A).
In both sets, ch- is consistently more frequent than sh-. In A, ch- is slightly more than the double of sh. In B, ch- is about 1.5 of the count for sh-.
The ratios seem fairly consistent inside each of A and B, but are rather different between A and B, so possibly the phenomenon is easier to study considering A and B separately?