Re: VMs: Strange or not?

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

4/01/2005 11:41:53 AM, Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Koontz John E wrote:
...
>John, I am not proposing that ch and sh are the same. EVA-k & EVA-t are 
>almost identical in their "preference" for adjacent letters.

Letters (or sounds) with identical (or almost) "preferences"
for adjactent letters are most likely to represent different
"entities", that is, to be different letters (more properly:
graphemes) or different sounds (more properly: phonemes).

Conversely, letters (or sounds) which occur in mutually
exclusive distribution (viz. "x" occurs where "y" never does
and vice versa) are most likely to be non-significant
variations of the same entities (in jargon: allographs of
the same graphemes, allophones of the same phonemes).

The "rule" (not a rule, really, but an observation) is
also true at the word level.



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