Statistical Patterns in Gothic Phonology

Abstract

Jellinek has presented lists of the Gothic consonant-clusters (excluding accidental clusters resulting from compounding, such as tg ), with notations of which clusters are found in only one word, but with no other remarks on frequency of occurrence. Dewey has gone a step further with English consonant-clusters: from his tables we learn how many times each cluster was found in his 100,000 words of sample texts. A different kind of frequency is reported in the Twaddell study of one- and two-syllable German words: having analysed the uncompounded words in a lexicon, he reports the number of different forms in which each cluster was found. The Jellinek report gives us no statistical picture in the sense intended here; the Dewey count gives us a statistical picture of TEXT frequencies; the Twaddell count, of LIST frequencies.

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