[split] Word length autocorrelation
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(05-09-2025, 07:57 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's interesting that Gaskell and Bowern found the opposite for natural languages (negative autocorrelation: short-long-short-long). But this is only marginally relevant to LAAFU, so it should probably be discussed in a separate thread.

It should strongly depend on the language, and somewhat on the text. 

 English has detached articles, prepositions instead of cases, mandatory pronouns, analytic verb tenses, etc., all which should imply negative correlation (tendency to alternate long-short-long).  

Latin has none of those things, and thus I expect that it will have near zero or positive correlation.

All the best, --jorge
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[split] Word length autocorrelation - by ReneZ - 05-09-2025, 12:27 AM
RE: Can LAAFU effects be modeled? - by quimqu - 05-09-2025, 07:30 AM
RE: Can LAAFU effects be modeled? - by MarcoP - 05-09-2025, 07:57 AM
RE: Can LAAFU effects be modeled? - by Jorge_Stolfi - 05-09-2025, 03:09 PM
RE: Can LAAFU effects be modeled? - by nablator - 05-09-2025, 12:20 PM
RE: Can LAAFU effects be modeled? - by quimqu - 05-09-2025, 12:49 PM

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