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<p>Hello everybody</p>
<p>I tried a quick search in RefLex (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.reflex.cnrs.fr/Africa">www.reflex.cnrs.fr/Africa</a>),
only on the sources that have more than 10,000 lexical entries
(there are 7 of them). These very limited results don't seem to
confirm the hypotheses, although there might be some biasses due
to morphology (noun classes, verbal extensions, etc.). Here are
the figures</p>
<p><img src="cid:part1.26535ABF.FB66956D@cnrs.fr" alt=""></p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Guillaume<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 14/09/2020 à 10:44, Sebastian
Nordhoff a écrit :<br>
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cite="mid:110b5bc0-b82b-fea0-28cb-e0a9cc4733ee@glottotopia.de">On
9/14/20 10:20 AM, JOO, Ian [Student] wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear Sebastian,
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<br>
Please check phoible.org
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Dear Ian,
<br>
phoible seems to confirm hypothesis 2) and 3) for types, but not
1) (numbers are percentages):
<br>
<br>
i 92 u 88
<br>
e 61 o 60
<br>
a 86
<br>
<br>
(one would have to include ɔ and epsilon where there is no e/o,
but I do not know how to do this in the web interface)
<br>
<br>
Is there any information about tokens? For instance, Spanish has
the following token frequencies in texts
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecuencia_de_aparici%C3%B3n_de_letras">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecuencia_de_aparici%C3%B3n_de_letras</a>:
<br>
<br>
e: 13.68%
<br>
a: 12.53%
<br>
o: 8.68%
<br>
i: 6.25%
<br>
u: 3.93%
<br>
<br>
So the high vowels /i/ and /u/ are less frequent than the mid
vowels /e/ and /o/, disconfirming hypothesis 2. (This is based on
graphemes, but Spanish orthography is sufficiently phonemic).
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<br>
Best wishes
<br>
Sebastian
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Regards,
<br>
Ian
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*제목:* [Lingtyp] Frequency of front/back, high/mid vowels
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Dear list members,
<br>
do we have any information about the cross-linguistic validity
of the
<br>
following hypotheses?
<br>
<br>
1) front vowels like /i/, /e/ are more frequent than back vowels
like
<br>
/u/, /o/
<br>
<br>
2) high vowels like /i/, /u/ are more frequent than mid vowels
like
<br>
/e/, /o/.
<br>
<br>
3) "corner vowels" /a/, /i/, /u/ are more frequent than anything
else.
<br>
<br>
I am interested in information about types (phonemic inventory)
as well
<br>
as tokens (counts in texts).
<br>
<br>
Best wishes and than you for your time
<br>
Sebastian
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