Akshara-to-sound rules for Hindi

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-72

  Pandey, Pramod ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Akshara to sound rules Grapheme to phoneme rules; Devnagari script; Pronunciation lexicon; Prosodic structure; Syllable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894582737     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.855622     Document Type: Article

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