Re: Consonant phoneme frequency.
From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
Date: | Saturday, June 4, 2005, 10:46 |
taliesin the storyteller skrev:
> * Steven Williams said on 2005-06-04 05:53:55 +0200
>
>>Are there any good sources I could use for finding out
>>the approximate frequency of given consonant classes
>>in languages?
>
>
> The frequency of letters in English was the basis for morse code, the
> most frequent letter, 'e', is also the easiest to tap.
But that must be an artifact of the many silent final 'e's in
the orthography, many of which aren't even hitorical, and those
that are reflect ME /@/ which reflected several OE vowels.
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