16-08-2021, 05:01 PM
As you note, Torsten had an interesting paper on distance and similarity, noting potential patterns. He also showed that some languages also had patterns (though different). I really wanted him to test a huge range of texts to understand more about these kinds of patterns, but it never happened.
On your purple and light blue lines: is it that there are two patterns? Line initial words are similar to one another, which causes the 9/18 and 10/19 rises, while line-internal words are similar to each another but dissimilar to line initial? This by removing the line initial and final words, the longer repeat disappears and the main N+2 is strengthened because they make up a greater ratio of all words?
(I've still yet to work through the whole of Patrick's post! There's so much and I've been so distracted with other things.)
On your purple and light blue lines: is it that there are two patterns? Line initial words are similar to one another, which causes the 9/18 and 10/19 rises, while line-internal words are similar to each another but dissimilar to line initial? This by removing the line initial and final words, the longer repeat disappears and the main N+2 is strengthened because they make up a greater ratio of all words?
(I've still yet to work through the whole of Patrick's post! There's so much and I've been so distracted with other things.)