(31-05-2026, 03:20 PM)Dunsel wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As for gallows stripping, that was done because gallows are overwhelmingly productive in prefix positions. If gallows behave as a frequent prefix operation rather than as ordinary internal characters, then treating chol, kchol, tchol, etc. as completely unrelated forms obscures rather than reveals the family structure.
I agree that this is a good idea. This was also my feeling, that gallows are not part of the structure and are sometimes added to create variants or as an afterthought as a connector/filler to make longer words out of two words. They need several slots if you want to allow them in a slot sequence. The easiest solution is to get rid of them.
(12-05-2024, 01:27 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The complication of gallows dancing differently around q and ch can be resolved by removing gallows from the slot sequence.
About slot sequences, what is your interpretation of the excellent correlation of word frequency to matching a slot sequence, either Massimiliano Zattera's original 12-slot one or a simplified one with a lower number of slots? What constraining mechanism could explain it? It's not a natural thing that anyone would do without a reason, nor a chaotic thing that just happens randomly. Exceptions are numerous but not among high frequency word types.
The 5-50 range is the minimum number of times that the word type occurs in the VMS, i.e. for 5 I kept all word types that occur at least 5 times.