Phonotactic Complexity and Its Trade-offs

AbstractWe 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...

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Main Authors: Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, Ryan Cotterell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2020-01-01
Series:Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00296/43538/Phonotactic-Complexity-and-Its-Trade-offs