# Goldsmith 2009: Learning phonological categories

> John Goldsmith, Aris Xanthos, 2009. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The book's chapter on borrowed instruments uses its methods to sort the…

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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.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1353/lan.0.0100](https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0100)** Checked 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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[Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key)

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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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