Can syllabification improve pronunciation by analogy of English?

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Marchand, Yannick ^a   Damper, Robert I ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; GLOSSARIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PRONUNCIATION BY ANALOGY (PBA); SYLLABIFICATION BY ANALOGY (SBA);

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33745860155     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905004043     Document Type: Article

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