Re: I was wondering...
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 17, 2002, 10:52 |
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Arthaey wrote:
>
> >sounded dumb, there wasn't enough variation, i.e. I seemed to have
>favorite
> >sounds that became too predominant. There are around 72,000 potential
>CVCVC
>
>But, at least in English (the only language I speak fluently), all
>potential combinations are _not_ distributed evenly. For example, of all
>digrams in English TH occurs 3.15% of the time compared to LY's 0.47%. So
>it seems to me that having a "favorite" sound would make a language _more_
>natural, not less.
While your point is valid, and also applies to single phenemes, your example
isn't very good, since LY in in English signifies a two-phoneme sequence,
while TH usually signifies a unitary phoneme.
Andreas
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