A Statistical Linguistic Analysis of American English

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. PIONEERS IN WORD COUNTING -- II. GENERAL PLAN OF THE PRESENT STUDY -- III. PREPARATORY WORK -- IV. PROCESSING THE DATA -- V. RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION -- VI. PREVIOUS STUDIES OF SPEECH SOUNDS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDICES -- I. ETYMOLOGICAL COMPOSITION OF ENGLISH -- II. RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF SEGMENTAL PHONEMES -- III. RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF VOWELS -- IV. RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF CONSONANTS AND SEMIVOWELS -- V. PHONEME PROPORTIONS BY NUMBER AND FREQUENCY FOR EACH DECILE -- VI. WORD LENGTH IN PHONEMES -- VII. WORD LENGTH IN SYLLABLES -- VIII. JOINT FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF WORD LENGTH BY SYLLABLE AND PHONEME NUMBER -- IX. CANONICAL FORMS OF CONSONANT, VOWEL, SEMIVOWEL -- X. CANONICAL FORMS BY MANNER OF ARTICULATION OF PHONEMES -- XI. CANONICAL FORMS BY PLACE OF PRODUCTION OF PHONEMES -- XII. TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITIES FOR SEQUENCES OF TWO PHONEMES -- XIII. TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITIES FOR WORD-INITIAL PHONEME SEQUENCES -- XIV. ENTROPY AND REDUNDANCY BASED ON PHONEME FEQUENCIES BY DECILE -- XV. ENTROPY AND REDUNDANCY BASED ON WORD LENGTH IN PHONEMES BY DECILE -- XVI. ENTROPY AND REDUNDANCY BASED ON WORD LENGTH IN SYLLABLES BY DECILE -- XVII. INITIAL CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS -- XVIII. INTERVOCALIC CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS INCLUDING PRE-CONSONANTAL OFF-GLIDES / y, h, w / -- XIX. FINAL CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS INCLUDING PRE-CONSONANTAL OFF-GLIDES / y, h, w / -- XX. INTERVOCALIC CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS -- XXI. FINAL CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS -- XXII. PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION OF THE FIRST DECILE -- Backmatter