VMs: Re: excessive frequency of doubles...

["Marianna Ridderstad" <marianna.ridderstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here are some examples from Finnish:
-names: Jari, Sari, Ari, Mari, Kari, Lari, Mira, Armi, Ira, Aira
-other words: ripa, arpi, pari; loki, lokki, Lokka, hoki, hokki, koki,
kokki, kokka, noki, nokki, nokka etc. (this just goes on and on if one
changes one letter in the next word and so on)
-an example of a sentence (perfectly valid if somewhat meaningless - or
poetical...): tuli tuli ja tuuli tullee (the fire came and the wind may
arrive)

Marianna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacques Guy" <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:30 PM
Subject: VMs: excessive frequency of doubles...


> 18/08/2004 8:03:00 AM, "Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > many  "words" where
> >for instance only one character is changed or so many permutations  of
the same
> >letters in one word (that is not a typical feature of any natural
language)
>
> It is, of some natural languages. I have already given many examples
> here, drawing now from Indonesian, now from Japanese, and I forgot
> what else. I'll just give one example from French this time: cahin-caha.
> And, why not, one from English: bow-wow. Such words are not very common
> in French or in English, but they are very common in some other languages.
>
> >Combined with no appearance of "longer" words
>
> Jorge Stolfi has observed similar properties of word-length distribution
> in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tibetan. Do a google search "chinese theory
> stolfi" and you'll find it (it was in 2002).
>
>
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