Re: VMs: wordlength persistence

["Ger" <ger.hungerink@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a less trivial example of two languages say A and B.
A has wordlengths (frequencies): 3 (1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (2) 7 (1)
B has wordlengths (frequencies): 4 (1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (2) 8 (1)
So A has average wordlength 5.0 and B has 6.0

Suppose we have a text, half in language A and half in language B
Consider a word of four letters.
It occurs twice in A, followed by a word averaging 5 letters, against once 
in B followed by a word averaging 6 letters. So a four letter word is 
followed by a word averaging 5.33 letters.

This leads to the table:

3: 5.00
4: 5.33
5: 5.40
6: 5.60
7: 5.67
8: 6.00

of word length followed by average next word length.
Looks familiar?

Ger



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From: "ger" <ger.hungerink@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: wordlength persistence


> The wordlength connection can easily be explained by several factors:
>
> 1) Text in two parts of  "languages" with a different average wordlength 
> (AWL) each.
> 2) Text with citations in a "longer" language.
> 3) Text containing sequences of longer words, as in summing up names.
> 4) Text containing names consisting of two longer words.
>
> For a trivial example of the last case see:
>
> "aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa Wilfrid Voynich aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa 
> aaaaa aaaaa"
>
> the AWL following a 5 letter word is 5.2
> the AWL following a 7 letter word is 6.0
>
> Now imagine text with AWL 5 containing groups of words with AWL 6 and the 
> same will hold although to much lesser extend.
>
> This is not say there is no such effect as a wordlength connection, but 
> that can only unsurface when at least the four named effects are excluded.
>
> Ger
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