28-05-2016, 09:53 PM
(28-05-2016, 09:35 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP - in Dutch, 'en' means 'and', but it is also a plural ending. For example handen means hands. If I'm not mistaken, somethig like that may explain the distribution you describe.
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That's a good example... and even if they weren't the exact same syllable (for plural and for "and") it's still possible a word-token could stand for more than one thing, depending on context, which would affect frequency counts (and thus, the possible interpretation).