Detail Phoneme Frequencies Follow a Yule Distribution (The Form of the Phonemic Distribution in World Languages)   Oleh:  Tambovtsev, Yuri ; Martindale, Colin Jenis: Article from Journal Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 4 no. 2 (Feb. 2007), page 1-11. Topik: phoneme frequency; phoneme distribution; cross-linguistic research Fulltext: Yuri Tambovtsev.pdf (206.04KB) Isi artikel Frequency of occurrence of words in a language is well described by Zipf’s (1949) law. However, Zipf’s law does not well describe the distribution of the phonemes from which words are composed. Examination of frequency of occurrence in 95 languages shows that phoneme frequencies are best described by an equation first developed by Yule (1924) that also describes the distribution of DNA codons. The Yule equation fits the distribution of phoneme frequencies better than the Zipf equation or equations proposed by Sigurd (1968) and Borodovsky and Gusein-Zade (1989). Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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