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This paper examines certain aspects of phonological structure from the viewpoint of abstract data types. Our immediate goal is to find a format for phonological representation which will be reasonably faithful to the concerns of theoretical phonology while being rigorous enough to admit a computational interpretation. The longer term goal is to incorporate such representations into an appropriate general framework for natural language processing.
The work reported in this paper has been carried out as part of the research programmes of the Dyana project (br 3175), funded by cec esprit, and of the Human Communication Research Centre, supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. It is based on a paper, written jointly with Steven Bird, presented to the Twelfth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, August 1991, and I am indebted to Steven for many of the ideas discussed here. I would also like to thank Michael Newton and Jo Calder for comments on earlier versions.
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Klein, E. (1991). Phonological Data Types. In: Klein, E., Veltman, F. (eds) Natural Language and Speech. ESPRIT Basic Research Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77189-7_2
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