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== Method ==
== Method ==
We isolated 2,936 rows from the dictionary that are monosyllables and converted their TRS to MTL. We only considered words from the first section of the dictionary because they appear to be frequently used, and ignored the second section. Then we counted the frequency of each MTL with Python's collections.Counter, which tells the number of dictionary rows matching each MTL, and got 1,813 unique MTL. Then we used Counter again on those results and found:  
We isolated 2,936 rows from the dictionary that are monosyllables and converted their TRS to MTL. We only considered words from the first section of the dictionary because they appear to be frequently used, and ignored the second section. Then we counted the frequency of each MTL with Python's collections.Counter, which tells the number of dictionary rows matching each MTL, and got 1,813 unique MTL. Then we used Counter again on those results and found:  
* as expected, many MTL (39%) match more than one row. This affects 62% of rows
* 1103 MTL (61%) and 1103 rows (38%) uniquely match one-to-one
* however, 61% of MTL and 38% of rows uniquely match one-to-one
* as expected, many MTL (710, or 39%) match more than one row, affecting 1833 rows (62%):
* 24% MTL match 2 rows (30% rows)
** 443 MTL (24%) match 2 rows (30% rows)
* 10% MTL match 3 rows (18% rows)
** 173 MTL (10%) match 3 rows (18% rows)
* 5% MTL match 4 to 6 rows (14% rows)
** 94 MTL (5%) match 4 to 7 rows (15% rows)
* the most matched MTL are ''{{x|lie}}'', ''{{x|ky}}'', ''{{x|køf}}'', which have 7 matches each, affecting <1% MTL and rows
*** ''{{x|lie}}'', ''{{x|ky}}'', ''{{x|køf}}'', are the most matched MTL (7 rows each)
*** ''{{x|cie}}'', ''{{x|kafn}}'', ''{{x|kefng}}'', ''{{x|sefng}}'', ''{{x|kaf}}'', ''{{x|kaq}}'', ''{{x|zngf}}'', ''{{x|ti}}'', ''{{x|sw}}'', ''{{x|leeng}}'', ''{{x|kerng}}'', match 6 rows each


== Data ==
== Data ==

Revision as of 11:33, 28 August 2018

A lot of Taiwanese monosyllables are homonyms: same sound, different meaning. How many homonyms does Taiwanese have? To help answer the question, we singled out monosyllables from the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (MoeDict) and did some analysis.

Method

We isolated 2,936 rows from the dictionary that are monosyllables and converted their TRS to MTL. We only considered words from the first section of the dictionary because they appear to be frequently used, and ignored the second section. Then we counted the frequency of each MTL with Python's collections.Counter, which tells the number of dictionary rows matching each MTL, and got 1,813 unique MTL. Then we used Counter again on those results and found:

  • 1103 MTL (61%) and 1103 rows (38%) uniquely match one-to-one
  • as expected, many MTL (710, or 39%) match more than one row, affecting 1833 rows (62%):
    • 443 MTL (24%) match 2 rows (30% rows)
    • 173 MTL (10%) match 3 rows (18% rows)
    • 94 MTL (5%) match 4 to 7 rows (15% rows)

Data

See also

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