k/t gallows reduplication

[nablator]

Hi Marco,

A few plots based on the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration (ZL_ivtff_2b.txt)

Did you remove the alternates ([:])? I made a few mistakes in the counts because there are some complicated cases that I failed to remove.

I would like to compare these figures with actual linguistic texts. We know that these sequences are different from a randomly arranged text, but I am curious to see if they are as incompatible with natural languages as I expect.

The more general question is about all irregularities (inhomogeneities) between paragraphs, pages, sections. Some short patterns (1, 2, 3 EVA-letters) are frequent on some pages and absent on others. I am not sure which statistical metric (Chi² has some limitations) is best suited to measure how (un)likely the deviations are, and then compare to natural languages. Of course more statistical noise is expected on short samples (like paragraphs) so the metric has to take the size of the sample into account somehow.

[MarcoP]

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[pfeaster]

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