Multi-Syllable Phonotactic Modelling
<|reference_start|>Multi-Syllable Phonotactic Modelling: This paper describes a novel approach to constructing phonotactic models. The underlying theoretical approach to phonological description is the multisyllable approach in which multiple syllable classes are defined that reflect phonotactically idiosyncratic syllable subcategories. A new finite-state formalism, OFS Modelling, is used as a tool for encoding, automatically constructing and generalising phonotactic descriptions. Language-independent prototype models are constructed which are instantiated on the basis of data sets of phonological strings, and generalised with a clustering algorithm. The resulting approach enables the automatic construction of phonotactic models that encode arbitrarily close approximations of a language's set of attested phonological forms. The approach is applied to the construction of multi-syllable word-level phonotactic models for German, English and Dutch.<|reference_end|>
@article{belz2001multi-syllable,
    title={Multi-Syllable Phonotactic Modelling},
    author={Anja Belz (CCSRC, SRI International)},
    journal={Jason Eisner, Lauri Karttunen and Alain Theriault (eds.),
  Finite-State Phonology: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop of the ACL Special
  Interest Group in Computational Phonology (SIGPHON), pp. 46-56. Luxembourg,
  August 2000},
    year={2001},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0102020},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}