Re: VMs: Worry - information loss in transcription - pictures ...

["Larry Roux" <LRoux@xxxxxxx>]

One must remember that there are characters in languages (such as Latin
Sigma) that have one form that appears (almost) exclusively at the end
of words while another form is used in any other position.  




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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> tsalagi@xxxxxxxx 09/02/03 11:27PM >>>
Dennis wrote:
> 
> Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> >
> > > And isn't it strange how <o> and <y> are so common,
> > > yet so very rarely
> > > occur beside each other? Glyph transcription + ee +
> > > oy + yo ==> (oy = 0.07%
> > > and yo = 0.05%).
> >
> > This is precisely the origin of the low pair
> > entropy.
> 
>         I don't follow this, Rene.  Could you explain?

Gabriel Landini wrote:
>  
> The distribution of duplets is very skewed, so some duplets are very
common
> while others are very rare (that is why it is said that the structure
of
> words is so rigid, Stolfi's word structure and so on).
> Once you know 1 character, you can guess the next one with more
success than
> if they were all equally probable.

	OK.  Why then are <o> and <y> rarely adjacent?  Is it
because 
<o> often begins words and <y> often ends them?

Dennis
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