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INFORMATION regarding the sequential dependencies among letters in the English language is of interest not only in connexion with linguistics and cryptography, but also because of its value for communication theory and for the psychology of language1,2.
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BADDELEY, A., CONRAD, R. & THOMSON, W. Letter Structure of the English Language. Nature 186, 414–416 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186414a0
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