k/t gallows reduplication

[pfeaster]

Thank you, Patrick! I thought benched gallows were excluded because Y values are quite lower in your plot than in mine (~30% vs ~45% for k+t in the first bin; 'k' average ~22% vs ~30%); there must be some other reason for this difference, but I cannot guess what it might be.

For my plot, I limited the dataset to words that exist in what I was calling "homologous" pairs, excluding any [k] words that don't have equivalent [t] words attested, and vice versa.  If you didn't do likewise, that might explain why your overall percentages are higher than mine.

I also assigned bins 1 and 10 to the first and last words in lines, dividing up the rest of the line between the eight bins in between, rather than dividing the whole line evenly into ten bins (as I'd done previously for some similar plots).  The choice between these two approaches will naturally have some effect on the shapes of the curves.

This seems likely to apply to shorter sequences, while I am not sure that line preferences can have an impact on sequences that span several lines.

Agreed, I don't see how it would apply to those longer sequences either -- I'm just trying to think of any ways in which the two phenomena might connect.

In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I presented some statistical evidence that it's more likely overall for a [t] to be followed by another [t] within the next 4-6 glyphs, and for a [k] to be followed by another [k] within the same distance, than it is for a [t] to be followed by a [k] or vice versa.  That also seems consistent with a tendency towards "blocks," for whatever it's worth.