Lines interrupted by drawings

[Emma May Smith]

Marco, while you're right that words starting [che, she] or [yk, yt] behave differently after mid-breaks, they still have the same preference. Both [che, she] are less common after mid-breaks and after line breaks, while both [yk, yt] are more common. They're simply not responding to the same degree, though they are showing the same preference. Naturally, it depends on the statistics whether the smaller changes are robust enough to draw evidence from.

I, too, find the [qo] statistics interesting here. Note that [qo] is much lower after mid-breaks while [ot] is much higher. I know we've discussed in the past the relation between [t] and [k], especially in the presence of [q].

Interestingly, [sa] is more common after both line breaks and mid-breaks, yet words starting [a] are only missing after line breaks and not mid-breaks. I had thought that [sa] was replacing [a] at the start of lines, yet clearly must rethink this idea.