Re: Corpora: grammar of English letter-sequences

From: Alex Chengyu Fang (alex@phonetics.UCL.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 12:27:28 MET DST

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    At 09:52 04/05/00 +0100, Geoffrey Sampson wrote:
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    >Does anyone know of anything like a grammar of English letter-sequences --
    >a system which generates the range of character-sequences which could
    >plausibly occur as words of English, and a subset of which actually do?

    Both Harris and Herdan discussed the probabilitic aspects of
    letter/letter-sequence co-occurrences.

    Also, work in speech synthesis has produced letter-sequences that form
    "phonetic sub-words" and rules that license such units as letter sequences.

    Alex

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