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Re: Iterative conlang design with corpus analysis, Or, Build one to throw away

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 1:36
Emaelivpeith Larry Sulky 'sa <larrysulky@...>:
> Jim, I didn't see anything in your post about "permutation density" (a > term I made up because I don't know what it's really called). By this > I'm referring to how many possible roots of a given form are actually > used. For example, if you give definitions to 70% of the possible CV > words (assuming those are possible words), then the permutation > density there is 70%. Would you want to set some limits on permutation > density? ---larry
Do you (or anyone else) have figures for "permutation density" in natlangs? Wondering what the "happy median" is. -- AA http://conlang.arthaey.com

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Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...>