Re: Saul's Phrase List Rob Zook Thu, 06 Nov 1997 13:24:17 -0600 At 12:23 PM 11/6/97 -0600, you wrote: >I find it kind of spooky that the phoneme distribution between those >phrases and the lexicon should be at all similar, because the phrases >make use of forms of probably less than 20 different words. This says a >lot, as I had suspected, about the skew of the current lexicon. Yes, the fact that the small sample and the larger samples distribution came out the same indicates a very skewed sample. However, any such distribution of the phonemic inventory of a language should have some skewes in favor of the sounds which make it distinctive. We don't really have a large enough sample yet to make much from these preliminary distributions. If we can build a 15-30K file of phrases then well be able to decide something meaningful. >We may need a temporary ban on /a/ and /r/ until things even out a bit. Well, lets wait abit make some more phrases and see how what the overall sound seems like. Rob Z. -------------------------------------------------------- Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. -- Bertrand Russell