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  • From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: dresher AT chass.utoronto.ca (E. Dresher), idsardi AT chass.utoronto.ca (William Idsardi), jbalcaen AT chass.utoronto.ca (Jean Balcaen), jrevell1 AT compuserve.com
  • Subject: distribution of pause by accents
  • Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:46:22 -0400 (EDT)


i did some serious number crunching based on our work here on pausal
phonology. of some interest, distribution of pausal environments (not
necessarily pausal form there!) by accent level:

d0 (athnah, silluq): 61.0%
d1 31.4%
d2 6.4%
d3 0.9%
conjunctive 0.4%
(based on a sample of 2846)

what still surprises me is pause on less than d1, and conjunctives
too: wow. at any rate, this should give average pausal phrases per
verse (pun: perverse!).

henry, how do those %s square with your statistical study? (i don't
have accent to it right now: moving office again)

cheers
V
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