Phonotactic Complexity and Its Trade-offs
We present methods for calculating a measure of phonotactic complexity—bits per phoneme— that permits a straightforward cross-linguistic comparison. When given a word, represented as a sequence of phonemic segments such as symbols in the international phonetic alphabet, and a s...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The MIT Press
2020-07-01
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Series: | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Online Access: | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/tacl_a_00296 |