Emergence of Community Structures in Vowel Inventories: An Analysis based on Complex Networks

Proceedings of 9th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, SIGMORPHON 2007 - Held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-108

  Mukherjee, Animesh ^a   Choudhury, Monojit ^a   Basu, Anupam ^a   Ganguly, Niloy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

CO-OCCURRENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; STRONG CORRELATION; VOWEL INVENTORY; VOWEL SYSTEMS; WEIGHTED NETWORKS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79952620534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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