Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Monosyllables: Difference between revisions

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-A monosyllable is a word with only one syllable. A lot of Taiwanese monosyllables are homophones: same sound, different meaning. But just how many are there? To help answer the question, we looked at the monosyllables in the ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]'' (''MoeDict'').
+A monosyllable is a word with only one syllable. Looking at the ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]'' (''MoeDict''), we found 2,936 rows that are monosyllables, covering 1,800 distinct sounds. Here is a chart of all the sounds organized by initial consonant and final part: [[:File:MTL examples for each final.pdf|PDF]]
+[[File:Percent of rows per homophone overlap.png|thumb|left|Most of Taiwanese monosyllables are homophones. The most common case is 2:1 overlap, affecting 31% of rows.]]
 == Method ==
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 ** some three rows: 516 rows (18%), 172 sounds (10%)
 ** the rest, four to seven rows: 441 rows (15%), 97 sounds (5%)
+Here is the data: [[:File:TSS_rows_per_group1monosyllable.ods|ODS]]
-[[File:rows and matching MTL vs. match level.png|thumb|none]]
-== Data ==
-* [[File:TSS_rows_per_group1monosyllable.ods]]
 == Trivia ==