The Information Of Sounds And Phonetic Digrams Of One- And Two-Syllable Words

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1549 words of one syllable and 2151 words of two syllables were selected from words of Thorndike ratings 1 to 10. These samples indicate that there are transitional probabilities of an order to indicate at least one chance in 10 that a particular sound will be next and that these chances may exceed one in 3 in some phonemic sequence. The phonetic elements in root forms have dissimilar frequencies which are not independent of the preceding and succeeding sounds. When these are treated as pairs, the average redundancy is at least .20 and within the categories of the words sampled reaches .37. 3 phoneme words contain more average information per sound than do sounds of longer words.

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