kingsley@hpwrce.HP.COM (Kingsley Morse) (04/18/91)
Has anyone statistically analyzed spoken (or written) language? For example, what is the probability of various english phonemes? What is the probabilty of an "A" in English? In French?
willdye@typhoon.unl.edu (04/20/91)
kingsley@hpwrce.HP.COM (Kingsley Morse) writes: >Has anyone statistically analyzed spoken (or written) language? For >example, what is the probability of various english phonemes? What is >the probabilty of an "A" in English? In French? Talk to the cryptographers. They have analyzed various languages in great detail, because they use patterns in a language to help them break codes. For example, if the code was to subsitute two-digit numbers for letters, you would look for the number that occurs most often, say 50, and try subsituting e for that number. E is the most commonly-used letter in the English language, followed by t, a, and o. More sophisticated analysis is available. --willdye