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Learning phonological categories

John Goldsmith, Aris Xanthos, 2009. Language 85(1): 4–38.

Shows how distributional statistics alone can recover phonological categories such as vowels and consonants, vowel harmony and syllable structure, starting from Sukhotin's algorithm.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1353/lan.0.0100Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book's chapter on borrowed instruments uses its methods to sort the manuscript's glyphs into hidden classes.

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Goldsmith, J., & Xanthos, A. (2009). Learning phonological categories. Language, 85(1), 4–38. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0100
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