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(02-11-2022, 03:04 AM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A good model explains common observations: why only one gallows glyph per word? why is /d/ before a gallows so rare, but a /d/ after a gallows so common? why is /ch/ so common, but not after /o, y/, except at the beginning of a line? And when we say "explain", we mean not that it provides a cause, but rather it provides a rule. So we might say, in answer to the foregoing questions: "there is only one normal slot for a gallows in a word", and "the slot for a gallows precedes the slot for /d/", and even "/o, y/ before /ch/ is abnormal and not part of regular word formation". These answer still require more explanation, but they take us forward: glyph have slots! slots have order! the final word may be the result of multiple processes!
Not every pattern must be based on rules. Also a repeating process can cause resonance effects which appear as patterns. For a resonance effect even small changes in the start configuration can result in different outcomes. In the case of the VMS properties like the long-range correlations, the binomial-like word length distribution, and the word frequencies indicate that a resonance effect is in place [see Timm & Schinner 2019].
There is no rule like "there is only one slot for a gallow" as the existence of words like <keoky> or <okeokeokeody> demonstrates. There is only the general principle that "high frequency tokens also tend to have high numbers of similar words" [see Timm & Schinner 2019, p. 6].
The rule behind "/o,y/ before /ch/ are rarely used" is a positional one. /o/ added to a string starting with /ch/ or /d/ normally results in <ok> [see [ch + ol] in Timm 2014, p 70]. This means Instead of <ochol> or <odol> normally <okol> is used. Therefore the word <ochol> is rare even though <chol> and <dol> are quite common. If you prefer you could also interpret /d-/, /ch-/, /ok-/, and /qok-/ as interchangable prefixes [see Table 3 in Timm & Schinner 2019, p. 10]:
Prefix | aiin ol dy
none | aiin ol dy
d- | daain dol dy
ch- | chaiin chol chedy
ok- | okaiin okol okedy
qok- | qokaiin qokol qokedy