Are perfect-reduplication and quasi-reduplication related?

[davidjackson]

I was wondering if there is any statistical method that could tell us if, in the VMS, quasi-reduplication is related with perfect reduplication or not. I.e. are there verifiable patterns that should be present if the two are related and absent if they are not?

Once the cases are clearly defined it shouldn't be difficult to run a script to extract the information you want. Surely it's just a case of extracting the ratios for each term and comparing to the non-duplicated occurrences in the corpus? But I can't really see how you can compare the two, unless you assume the first word in the quasi-reduplication sequence is a "master" word.

I've used the term evolving epizeuxis for quasi-reduplication terms in the past. I like the concept of the words being repeated yet evolving, which gives them a continuity. But how to define such a phenomenon for statistical purposes? Are we talking about 1-edit or 2-edit? How long should a chain go?

For example: <f112r.P.6;H> chedal.oteedy.okeey.qokeedy.olkeedy.oteey.oram

<f111r.P.3;H> dsheedy.lkeedy.chckhy.lchedy.qokeey.qokear.chal.qokeeas.cheokedy.sal.lokam
This example makes less sense in Eva, but if you start with the second word in this line and read along you can clearly see how the sequence evolves in a binary sequence. Words 1,3,6 form what is essentially an evolving epizeuxis, as do words 2,4,5,7.



And does a single duplication compare with a triple duplication? Or are they separate cases? All parameters you would have to define.