How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing
III. Phonetic Similarity, Suspicious Pairs, and Minimal Pairs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2407142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oswald Werner (Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-102 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CAM (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1525822x0101300106 |
| OpenAlex | W1986753713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
Phonetic analysis can be done with a short list of a few hundred words. First, carefully transcribe the list phonetically. Second, list the inventory of symbols. Third, tabulate the symbols by their articulatory position. Fourth, declare symbols in close articulatory proximity, that is, sounds of great phonetic similarity, as suspicious pairs. Finally, find two words with different meanings that are phonetically identical except for one member of a suspicious pair in each. Finding such a minimal pair implies that we have found a phoneme (writing symbol
Arithmetic · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Phonetics · Position (finance) · Similarity (geometry) · Speech recognition · Symbol (formal) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2005 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |