02-07-2026, 05:45 PM
(02-07-2026, 03:17 PM)Vuk88 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the existence of a syntactic suppression rule.
The expected frequency of word repeats is going to be biased by the affinities that word prefixes have for the suffices of previous words.
For instance in quire 20 the number of occurrences where a word starting q follows a word ending y is nearly twice what would be expected if the words were distributed randomly. This has the effect of raising the expectation of q__y word repeats. Also, words starting a have a liking for words ending r ( ~3.3 times the expected number in quire 20 ) and this raises the count of ar repeats. In quire 20 the number of occurrences of a word starting a and following a word ending iin is about 2/3 of what would be expected. This then lowers the expectation of aiin repeats.
To try to justify word repeats you might have to attempt also to give some justification for suffix-prefix affinities such as these.
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