From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: BH, pause and two distributions, an idea
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:58:24 -0400 (EDT)
henry,
your statistical study has been a real resource (to some extent also
Price's 5 vol concordance).
here's an idea to cover the two sets of stats that i'm getting and
you're reporting, for pause by accents, and for nesiga by accents (and
i assume pausal).
assume that 85% of pausal environments are sentence-final. assume that
sentence-final pause has one distribution.
assume < 10% of pausal environments are not sentence-final. assume
that they have another distribution: fewer on d0, more on lesser
accents, for obvious reasons.
then make this leap: nesiga is pausal, but patterns with the regular
pausal distribution and *not* the sentence-final type. finally, the
pausal environments i started with patterned sentence-finally: example
pause induced by ki-phrases.
this might be the correct picture. what do you all think?
V
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