Automatic syllabification in english: A comparison of different algorithms

Language and Speech

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-27

  Marchand, Yannick ^a,b   Adsett, Connie R ^a,b,c   Damper, Robert I ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogy; Computational linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Rule based systems; Speech technology; Syllabification

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349148087     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830908099881     Document Type: Article

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