(18-08-2024, 06:31 PM)pfeaster wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There appear to be three different / complementary processes proposed here:
1. Similar words co-occur near each other on an individual page because later tokens have been copied from earlier ones on the same page. This is the process obelus has been exploring with the "descent with modification" approach.
2. Similar words co-occur within groups of pages because tokens on destination pages have been copied from tokens on source pages (which in turn may mutually resemble each other because of process #1).
3. The process of making minor changes to words is asymmetrical, in the sense that changes in one direction are (or become) more probable than changes back in the other direction, and tend therefore to accumulate and become progressively more frequent:
Using only recently written pages as a source in 2. would increase the cumulative effect, if there is any tendency to drift. This tendency would need to be asymmetrical, even if the transitions in both directions are possible. More probable additions than removals could maybe explain the asymmetry? For example: eey would evolve to edy more often than change back to ey.
Quote:But the apparent [Ey]-to-[Eo] trajectory within Currier A doesn't continue seamlessly into Currier B.
It would require a lot of reordering in Currier A to follow the trajectory: maybe there is no trajectory and the ratio varies randomly both in Currier A and Currier B? I don't know.
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