Characters and Character N-Grams
Statistics at the level of the single character: which characters occur and how often, the letter sequences they form at the edges of words, and what their patterning reveals about the sound texture of sung German: vowels, consonant clusters, and phonetic openness.
Character Frequencies
Case-sensitive absolute and relative frequencies for all character types.
Zipf's Law
Rank-frequency distribution of characters, observed curve vs. Zipf reference.
Vowel Proportions
Distribution of German vowels, absolute frequencies and proportions.
Vowels Distribution
Per-song scatter of a, e, i, o, u against total vowels, coloured by vowel.
Etaoin Shrdlu
The 12 most frequent characters, modelled on the English typesetting mnemonic.
Word Beginnings
Top unigrams, bigrams and trigrams at the start of words.
Word Endings
Top unigrams, bigrams and trigrams at the end of words.
Consonant-to-Vowel Ratio
Ratio of consonants to vowels per archive as a measure of phonetic openness.
Consonant Clusters
Top word-internal consonant clusters as a proxy for articulatory complexity.