Distribution of doublets (a) and triplets (b) of syllable types.

Doublets and triplets are sorted according to decreasing probability in the real data. Separate graphs for each group (FRA = French, GER = German, f = female, m = male). The solid black lines show the distribution doublets and triplets in the observed syllable sequences (orig). The dotted green and dashed yellow lines show the distribution of the respective doublets and triplets in the syllable sequences calculated with the Probability model (PM) and the Markov model (MM) respectively.