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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Corpora List members, texts in the corpora
have vowels and sonorant consonants.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The total of the frequency of occurrence of vowels
and sonorant consonants in the sound speech chain allows us to judge if this or
that language sounds melodically (musically). Do you know any correct English
term for this total? Can one call this total - "the vocalo-sonorant
quotient" of the text? Looking forward to hearing your variants to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Remain yours sincerely
Yuri Tambovtsev</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>